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    yes, the heterozygous form of "fire" is just called fire. the super form / homozygous form is the black eye leucistic super fire.

    same with mojave, the heterozygous form is called mojave, the homozygous form is called super mojave, and super mojave is a blue eye leucistic.

    both are incomplete dominant, more commonly we incorrectly call them codom, or codominant. since the super forms are so dramatic, you might consider them recessives, where the hets have markers that are so strong that you can also consider them morphs on their own. some people say that fire is also "het black eye leucistic" and that mojave is "het BEL / blue eye leucistic". So i can see where you are coming from; the abundance of such codominant genes is a specialty in ball python breeding, while in other species most known morphs are recessive.

    mojave and fire are different genes, independent from each other, not allelic, not part of the same gene complex. So a double homozygous form, the super fire super mojave, is possible.

    and if you breed fire to mojave, you get 25% normals, 25% fire, 25% mojave, and 25% fire mojave. im sure you can get it to work this way with a morph calculator, just select a fire as a male and a mojave as a female.

    btw, both are part of a gene complex. Mojave is in the blue eye leucistic complex and interacts with other genes like lesser, butter, mystic, phantom, mocha, special, het russo, and bamboo. Fire is in the black eye leucistic complex and interacts with the sulfur, vanilla, and disco genes.

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