ultra ivory balls are complicated. They hatch out and have alot of pattern and color and almost look like white super stripes. They continue to get even more intense over the first year. Amir got a couple and calls them rainbow ivories. Sadly--after the first year they tend to turn more normal. Last year or the year before at daytona we took a few pics of an ultra next to a super stripe and the similarities were uncanny. I produced approx half ultras and half ivories when I breed my graphite to any yellowbelly in my collection. SO--my current theory(and it changes all the time) is that ultras are possibly het graphite? I hope next year alot of questions about the graphite will be answered as I will be breeding my graphite male to one of his graphite female offspring and I hope it will produce all graphites.
another genetic mystery with the graphite--I bred him to a normal female and he made a paradox ivory which grew up and actually became a paradox ivory graphite. She is sold to a customer in italy, but we are still awaiting replacement paperwork(long story). Now I bred him to an albino female a couple of years ago and produced orangebelly het albinos--I just pipped a clutch from that pair, and bam--another paradox ivory. I am fairly confident thought that the origins of the graphite gene come from my orginal orangebelly male. I have sold orangebellies from him and have had a customer produce a graphite, and have also sold an ivory produced from him that has produced a graphite. We have also produced a handful using him as a breeder as well.
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