So how did this happen?

[S.Gilbert]

Breeding was my G-Stripe male to a CBB Normal female. Did the same pairing last year resulting in 5 good eggs: 4.1 Normal Hets.
Same pair again produced 5 eggs this year, but 3 went bad early on. The remaining 2 looked fine until 5 days ago when 1 completely collapsed. The one good remaining egg pipped today (normal Het) so I cut the collapsed egg and found this:






Obviously a perfect G-Stripe fully formed dead in the egg. Besides being bummed at losing what looked like a very nice animal, how did I get a Homozygous G-Stripe?
I'ver heard of Parthenogenisis, but wouldn't that only happen if the FEMALE was the Homozygous Morph?

[seeya205]

They should have all been hets! I guess you got lucky! Well you would be lucky if it survived!

[mommanessy247]

wow sucxh a beauty too. so sorry that happened.

[Egapal]

If the baby didn't receive 100% of the alleles of the normal then the stripe could be expressed. I am guessing some pretty major genetic defects in the way of missing chromosomes and such.

[kellysballs]

Where did you get your female from? The only explanation I can think of is she is actually a het and you missed the odds last year.

[JD'S Exotics]

Pretty interesting. I had a buddy who bred 2 albinos together this year and got 4 albinos and 2 het's out of it? Not sure how that should happen either out of albino to albino breeding. To bad it died. Oh well now your het's held back from last year will hopefully be up to weight for this year.

[S.Gilbert]

Where did you get your female from? The only explanation I can think of is she is actually a het and you missed the odds last year.

She was purchased in a lot of 20 CBB females from Edensnakes. They were all supposed to be siblings to their CoDom breedings.

[Serpent_Nirvana]

Obviously a perfect G-Stripe fully formed dead in the egg. Besides being bummed at losing what looked like a very nice animal, how did I get a Homozygous G-Stripe?
I'ver heard of Parthenogenisis, but wouldn't that only happen if the FEMALE was the Homozygous Morph?

Very sorry the baby didn't make it I tend to agree with Egapal, though, in hypothesizing that there may have been a chromosomal defect that caused this. If the baby only got one copy of a certain chromosome (obviously the dad's copy), it would be lacking the normal, functional protein from mom that would give it a normal appearance, so it looks like a homozygous genetic stripe even though it only has one copy of the "stripe" gene.

Unfortunately, it looks as though that missing chromosome also prevented it from completing development sufficiently to emerge from the egg