How do you Identify a "Spector" & "Mystic"?

[Albey]

Yes breeding a Super Stripe should produce YBs and specters, but I think there is still a 1 in 4 chance of producing normals. It is easy to tell the Ybs and the specters apart, but not the specters and the normals. There is a great deal of variance in the specters as well.

Matt

Is that true? I always was of the understanding that that was one of the strange things about the Superstripes, and the Spector gene. I'm pretty sure that even though it seems like the Superstripe is two mutations on the same allele, there's still a possibility of producing normals. You would think it would be like a Leucistic produced by a Mojave and Lesser for example. When bred to a normal, you can only produce Lessers, or Mojaves. But I thought that wasn't the case with Superstripes, even though all logic points it it being that way. Maybe we can get Albey or someone with a lot of experience with Superstripes on here to clear things up? I'm not sure either way, I just feel like I've read the above a few times in the past.

Cheers,
-Matt

When you breed a Superstripe to a Normal all of the offspring are either Specters or Yellow Belly’s, no Normals. It is the same way as breeding a BEL that was produced from a Lesser to a Mojave breeding. All of the offspring are going to be either Mojave or Lesser, no Normals. All of the Major Superstripe breeders that I have personally talked to agree on this including Mark Haas, Anthony McCain, Brian Hahn, Marc Bailey and Clint Billingsley. The confusion started a few years ago when Tom Carlton of Cypress Creek Reptiles listed Superstripe sibs on his available page from a Superstripe to Normal breeding. Either Tom was not confident in his ability to pick out Specter from Yellow Belly or he suspected retained sperm from a previous breeding.

To see how powerful a Superstripe breeding can be take a look at the following post I did here at Ball Pythons.Net. It was a nine-egg clutch from a Superstripe to Pastel Yellow Belly and I produced two Pastel Superstripes, one Pastel Ivory, two Pastel Specters, two regular Specters and two regular Yellow Belly’s. Here is the link. http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...e-Clutch-(DUW)

I hope this helps.