Graphite Sired Ivories

[siegelreptiles]

People think of yb and ob as two seperate morphs---it is not---it is completely compatible---I like to compare it to lemon pastel vs regualr pastel-however there may be even more to it than that. In my opinion, there are 3 types of yellowbellies----

YELLOWBELLIES-yellow color-grow up looking more "normal" and are the hardest to distinguish as babies--these are the ones that people think--is this a yb? The adults can sometimes be tough to tell, and as a matter of fact, I just had one prove this year, that I did not think was a yellowbelly.

ORANGEBELLIES-more orange-more vibrant flames-obvious yellowbellies with great color and normally get prettier with age. My original male is 7 years old and still orange and pretty-I coined the name from him, and I call his offspring orangebelly bloodline animals. I have seen other peoples offspring to me that look like orangebellies. I have yet to see someone else produce a graphite, so maybe they are the same thing, maybe not.

BLACK YELLOWBELLIES-these animal are very dark and probably the most uncommon. My original adult female was an import that everyone said back in the day was not a yellowbelly. She proved for me and I still have her. She is a dark animal and has several white scale clumps(4or 5 scales)-I have seen others like her, and they also had the white scale clumps.

GRAPHITE-We produced our original grahite male by breeding our orangebelly male to a wild yellowbelly female. This same year we traded some orangebellys to Mike Bell for some albino balls. Mike raised those and produced ivories one of which has graphite speckling although not as extreme, it is still a graphite. So for him ob x ob made a graphite. Last year we bred our graphite male to one of his half sister orangebellies and produced 2 graphites. One was a very nice male that we sold to one of our friends, and one was a female that was not very extreme, that we kept. We have eggs again from that same female bred to our graphite ivory male, and I am sure we will have graphites again this year. All of this leads me to believe, that the graphite trait lies within the original orangebelly male that we imported ourselves. All of the non ivory offspring that our graphite male produces look like orangebellies as well. This year should clear a few questions up and should be interesting.

Our graphite last year made a paradox animal when bred to a normal, as well as another ivory type that we called an ultra ivory. Neat looking little critter, almost looks like a superstripe ivory(pics are on our site)-more questions and less answers, but that is why I love the entire yb complex--it is truly mysterious. We have graphite x superpaintball eggs incubating as well as graphite x 2 other dinker females that are very awesome--hopefully we will see some other neat stuff.