Quote Originally Posted by MarkS View Post
Not it's not. I've never heard of mojave being called a diluted gene. It's simply a different mutation of the same gene that lesser is a mutation of.

Sure, there is quite a bit of variability in ball pythons, but, for the most part, a normal is obviously a normal, a cinnamon is obviously a cinnamon and a black pastel is obviously a black pastel. I think it is pretty easy to distinguish the differences between most cinnamons and most black pastels, which to my mind makes it a different mutation.

there been plenty of threads about this topic, the fact that a super mojave is not a BEL, the fact that a mystic/mojave makes a mystic potion instead of a BEL, and other combos, its a deuted gene

the most part doesn't work, there normals that are mistaken for cinnys there are normals mistaken for pastels. looking different doesn't not make it a normal (yea double negative). and looking different doesn't make it a different mutation, its all in the genetics, lessers and butters used to look different but after a few generations... who can tell anymore with some of them. bet you in a few years cinny/black pastel will be the same way.

cinny x cinny = black pastel x black pastel = black pastel x cinny = black snake white bottom = same morph different line. pastel x cinny/black pastel = pewter, same concept as all the different lines of pastels. just because theres extreame examples of each doesn't change the genetic code.