Quote Originally Posted by mainbutter View Post
I'd have to disagree with the statement that "reduced pattern is not always genetic".. As the pattern of a snake is most certainly determined by genetics and can be passed on to offspring. Often enough though, it isn't a single gene mutation that causes the reduced pattern.

Just like tall humans have a genetic disposition to have tall children, reduced pattern BPs have a genetic disposition to have reduced pattern baby snakes.
We shall see - this girl was bred to a pastel last year (only hatched normals) and all the normals were very busy patterned - not a reduced on among them:



This year, I bred her to my tiger male, who is genetic, so if the normals got their "busy-ness" from the normal gene from the pastel, hopefully I'll get reduceds out of her from the tiger gene.