Quote Originally Posted by BallPython17 View Post
Whats this hidden gene guys? I've been trying to figure it out for a while. Cuz when you hit a woma to a woma they make pearls right? Is that the hidden gene? lol. I had a friend ask Amir about the hidden gene, but all he said was womaXwoma= pearl.
As the story goes(at least as I understand it), NERD paired a woma with a lesser, and a BP hatched out that looked NOTHING like what you'd expect. It was dubbed the "soul sucker". IMO it looks similar to the homozygous form of the "special" morph or "phantom" morph.

Successive breedings of lessers and womas hatched out what we know of today as lesser-womas, something that DOES look like what you'd expect.

This lead to speculation that the woma that produced the soul sucker wasn't just a woma.. but since it pretty much looks just like a woma, they called it a "hidden gene woma".

A lack of tons of information has made things tricky for people to truly understand what is going on here, but it is pretty much assumed by many people, including myself, that what are now called "hidden gene womas"(which when paired with lessers make soul suckers) are combo morphs of woma and a less-than-obvious BEL complex gene that is similar to phantoms or specials.