Quote Originally Posted by ShawnC View Post
Jag sibs cannot ever produce a Jaguar when bred to another normal. They are normal Carpet Pythons that did not pick up the gene for jaguar. Exactly the same a a normal ball python from a Spider Clutch, Pinstripe Clutch, Mojave...etc etc...

Many Jag siblings have looked exceptional over the years. However, when you consider that any given carpet python clutch has huge variability within the visual appearace of the offspring, coupled with the fact that people for the last several years have been pairing jaguars with the absolute best Carpet Pythons they can find..and you get clutches with a higher than normal percentage of just really nice normal siblings. Basically, other than line breeding, there is nothing special about siblings.

That make sense?

S~
While I agree with the above in theory, the Jag gene is still not fully understood. Just this year a (jag) sibling X sibling pairing produced 8 looking normals and one leucistic that died shortly after the egg was slit.