i guess ill just try to ask BHB reptiles.

when its in the same complex as cinnamon, het red axanthic and black pastel complex, that should be proven by now. but more likely its disproven by now.

lets say you breed a cinnamon mahogany to a normal, or to something unrelated that wont interfere with the optics too much, like a clown or an albino. if you get a single snake that again looks like cinnamon mahogany, or a normal, its already clear that its not the same complex. and if its the same complex, half of the offspring is cinnamon and the other half is mahogany. I think such clutches have been hatched already, same goes for mahogany het red axanthic. i mean this is something Brian at BHB definitively must know, he has either disproven it or is in the process of proving it.


proving that two genes are NOT in the same complex is easy. a 3-egg clutch with the right pairing can reveal that data. (so a single picture of a clutch, if its the right one with the right parents, can give a definitive answer that mahogany is not in the BEL complex). The opposite is harder to do.

thanks for the helpful responses so far ill try contacting some big breeders working with the gene.