Yeah, at first i believed it would be something like special or het russo, like in my earlier post, but now with more pictures and the great comparison shots its clear that het daddy is weaker than any other gene in the BEL complex.


Quote Originally Posted by Coleslaw007 View Post
The way I understand it, it's like an invisible codom that only shows when combined with the BEL genes. Idk if that made any sense, I understand it lol.
this is correct.

Is there a super daddy? Surely if it is in fact a part of the BEL group then it would have a super of some sort.
there really should be one, and it should not be hard to produce. If you breed a lesser het daddy to lesser het daddy, you get: 25% super lesser (BEL), 50% lesser het daddy, and 25% super het daddy. In such a pairing you are guaranteed to only get 2-gene animals, and whatever offspring doesnt look like a lesser or blue eye lucy MUST be a super het daddy. (and for the minimal chance that super daddy is lethal/absent, which i dont believe since the gene is sooooo subtle, you could prove that out with the same pairing: you should then only get super lessers and lesser het daddy, with 33%/66% odds, and never get anything else).


Maybe there are so few combos with this gene on WOBP, because its too subtle to see with other genes, like for example: spider het daddy or pastel het daddy are soo subtle that the breeders have trouble distingushing it in clutches, and the guys over at worldofballpython have trouble to accept the combo because its too subtle, lost in the noise of natural variation. To get a new morph added you need to CONVINCE the people at WOBP.