Hi


If you want to breed very clean and very white Blue Eye Lucys, i strongly advise against super lessers / super butters / lesser butters.

Why? Well, you have many different ways to make them, and only one of these many options has known genetic health issues.

Since super lesser, super butter, and the mixed version lesser+butter show the same eye issue i assume both genes to be identical, two equivalent lines of the same morph with different names. If they would really be different, it would be a big coincidence that the lesser butter has the same eye issue. (for comparison: super cinnamon and super black pastel both can have duckbill or spine kinks, but the cinnamon black pastel does not show these genetic issues and also looks different).

You can make very clean blue-eye lucys with the following combinations:

- lesser/butter + mojave
- lesser/butter + mystic
- lesser/butter + phantom
- lesser/butter + het russo
- lesser/butter + mocha
- Russo leucistic, the super-form of "het russo".
- possibly more combinations using one copy of russo and one of the other genes

Many of these are not on WOBP with a picture, because they look identical. If the combo is listed on WOBP, but there is no picture, you can assume WOBP rejected the pictures because they look too identical to any other clean BEL.

All of these are very white, and none of these show the genetic eye problem. It doesnt seem to be a big deal for a ball python to be blind, blind BPs live good lifes and only sometimes fail to strike their food item on first try. But still, why risk it if it can so easily be avoided?

Also, there are the BELs that are not completely white. You get them by combining two of these genes without using lesser or butter, or by making a super-form of any of these other genes. (Well, except for Russo, here the super is perfectly white).

For example: Mystic potion:
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/mystic-potion/

Enchi mystic potion:
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/mo...e-corcra-ball/

Super phantom:
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/super-phantom/

Latte = super mocha:
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/latte/ damn, they deleted the pictures.... Its almost white but with residual pattern and areas that almost look transparent or lavender-like.

Leche= phantom mocha:
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/leche/

So, if you just want a very white nice-looking and healthy BEL, the cheapest and easiest way would be to go for lesser/butter + mojave.

You can even mass-produce these very white BELs, and still avoid the eye issue, for example: Breed lesser to mojave to get lesser mojave BEL, breed mojave to mojave to get super mojave BEL. Now you can breed lesser mojave to super mojave and get clutches that will be 50% super-clean BELs in the form of lesser mojaves, and 50% of the grey-headed super mojaves. More of both, no normals or single-gene animals in the clutch. Rinse, repeat. Now you can breed lesser mojave to super mystic, 50% will be very clean white lesser mystics, and the other half will be those awesome mystic potions.