'Clean' patterns....

[Entropy]

In your opinion would a clean patterned spider (no spots) produce cleaner offspring then a muddled spider? Much the same way people believe you can get good looking pastels from ugly parents?

I myself am a sucker for clean, reduced patterns but does it really make that much difference in the offspring?

A coworker and I were talking about Boas and the speckling that occurs and the topic shifted to ball pythons, I think it does matter, she does not.

[Alice]

I'm a sucker for clean reduced patterns too.

In my experience, you can increase the odds of the offspring having a cleaner, reduced pattern if you start with parents who display those traits. However, clean/reduced pattern adults also throw "dirty" hatchlings and adults with busy patterns also throw clean/reduced babies some times. Many of the big breeders selectively breed their high priced morphs for pattern - some are more successful than others and some morphs seem to more easily adapt to cleaner or dirtier patterns than others.

I am really interested in the genetic reduced pattern normals that are popping up more frequently. Has anyone purchased one of these and bred it? I'd love to know the outcomes.