Lesser X Mojave???

[jmiles50]

So, I realized Lessers and Mojo's make BEL's when bred to each other. Do you also get super's (BEL) when you breed a Lesser to a Mojave???

[oOo2-FrEsH-oOo]

Yes, but they often vary depending on what the breeding is. with the Mojave to Mojave breeding there is typically an all white snake but with some greys or purples on the head. But when bred to a lesser, the BEL tends to be almost completely white with, in my experience, no pattern on the head.
Again, thats just to my knowledge. But yes when bred together they produce a white snake.

[OhhWatALoser]

yes

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[Naom9Anne]

Lesser x Lesser
Lesser x Mojave
Mojave x Mojave
Butter x Butter
Butter x Lesser
Butter x Mojave

All these combinations will give you the white snakes (not sure if I've missed any out)

[Ladybugzcrunch]

Lesser x Lesser
Lesser x Mojave
Mojave x Mojave
Butter x Butter
Butter x Lesser
Butter x Mojave

All these combinations will give you the white snakes (not sure if I've missed any out)

You forgot Russos

[Wamba681]

Fire x Fire will also give white snakes.. but with an orange hue/patches.

[Pythonfriend]

lesser = butter, that simplifies things.

in the BEL gene complex, there are stronger and weaker genes, you can sort them by how much they do on their own or in combos.

Bamboo is the strongest, followed by lesser/butter. mojave is a bit less powerful than lesser/butter. then you have mystic/phantom/special/mocha. these, as super forms or combined with mojave, make BELs that are not white, but still very beautiful. crystal, mystic potion, purple passion. because it is now so easy and there are so many ways to make a white ball python, these have significance precisely because you can do awesome off-white stuff with them.

some examples, and yes, i use WOBP just because its easy, not because i like it.

http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/leche/ check the second and third picture. do you see what i see, a white pigment acting on lavender background?
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/mo...e-corcra-ball/ mystic mojave enchi.... wow
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/super-phantom/ why not
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/super-mystic/ again, why not?
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/crystal/ mojave + special, awesome colors. i like these.
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/super-special/ the super special is also pretty neat

all of these are blue-eyed leucistics. they are not white, but all of them are legitimate BELs.

for pure white, you can use bamboo with pretty much any BEL gene (i wonder what the non-white BELs with bamboo will be, really). or super lesser/butter (they sometimes have eye issues, known genetic issue), or lesser/butter mojave (popular very white BEL without eye issues), or lesser/butter + mystic/phantom (also very white BEL without issues).

some examples of these:

http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/karma/ lesser phantom
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/super-bamboo/ super bamboo (lesser bamboo looks exactly the same)
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/mystic-lesser/ mystic lesser

i could go on, but basically when you combine two of the most powerful BEL genes, or when you combine one powerful BEL gene with a slightly less powerful one, you always get the same: an all-white BEL. bamboo is the most powerful one, followed by lesser/butter. combine any of these with each other or with mojave, mystic or phantom, and you get white BELs. go lower on the scale, and you get these fascinating BELs that still have color.

BEL means that its either a super, or a combination of two BEL genes. since they are all allelic, more than two is not possible. its one big gene complex, and a ball python can have two copies of one or one copy of two, and thats the upper limit.

[OhhWatALoser]

http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/leche/ check the second and third picture. do you see what i see, a white pigment acting on lavender background?
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/mo...e-corcra-ball/ mystic mojave enchi.... wow
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/super-phantom/ why not
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/super-mystic/ again, why not?
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/crystal/ mojave + special, awesome colors. i like these.
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/super-special/ the super special is also pretty neat

all of these are blue-eyed leucistics. they are not white, but all of them are legitimate BELs.

Leucistics need to have abnormal white, being partially leucistic or full on, but most of those animals are not leucistic at all. Also do all of them have blue eyes? I never really paid much attention to that.

[Pythonfriend]

Leucistics need to have abnormal white, being partially leucistic or full on, but most of those animals are not leucistic at all. Also do all of them have blue eyes? I never really paid much attention to that.

hairsplitting, my favorite pass time activity. unfortunately i dont care much in this case, a BP can have a maximum of two genes from the BEL gene complex, and when it has two, or if it has one and its homozygous, i just call it a BEL. you need to draw a line somewhere, i draw it elsewhere.

EDIT: and most of these have blue eyes, at least as hatchlings, in some combos the eyes darken out as they age. but the hatchlings seem to have the blue eyes. and a reduction of all pigment (irregardless of completeness) also appears to be the definition of leucism.

[Pythonfriend]

according to a questionable source (wikipedia), these two both can be called leucistic:



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