Quote Originally Posted by Fearless View Post
If I recall with the garcia morph as stated before, I believe Randy had already been involved in proving it as a dom possibly codom morph prior to breeding it with the mojave. And think that the idea of breeding it to the mojave was to prove it or disprove it as being part of the white snake complex, such as lesser mojave, het russo.
Yes, with her I wanted to breed to mojave when I first got her and even wrote TSK about her seven or eight years ago. I see now that she doesn't have the right shaped alien eyes but at the time mojave looked the most like her of anything I had seen (I might not have even known about the mojave being het white snake then but still I would love a white snake today). With the Garcia it might be a little easier figuring things out if I had used a normal male but I didn't even own a mojave before her 2008 babies so the breeding loan was a way for me to get mojave and have a shot at two morphs in one baby. I'm glad I did it based on the mojave Garcia 08 female even if I'm not sure about her brother.

I have another female dinker who finally gave me a clutch in the incubator now:



Not the best pic but she is sort of an axanthic/IMG girl. She was more striking when I first got her here shown on the left:



I bred her to a pastel het ghost as sort of a security policy per another post above. If none of her babies look like her I'll have to hang on to at least a few in case it's recessive. But if it turns out not to be genetic at all it would be nice to have maybe a pastel possibible het ghost male and a few pastel and normal possible het ghost girls rather than pure normals after I raise them up for a few years.

Because a female can have at most one clutch a year it's a big investment to decide what to breed her too. The Garcia girl's eggs aren't looking too good by the way so maybe I'll have to wait until 9 years after picking her up to finally hatch my own. With a dinker male I would be more likely to try a normal pairing since it wouldn't necisarilly use up 100% of his anual (or longer) breeding potential like with a female. By the way, the classic jungle on the right in the above picture was a male but since they have not proven genetic and I thought it was likely caused by egg stress I gave him away without even breeding him. Even a normal female's potential clutch is a valuable thing to spend lightly.