Gravel?

[Albey]

yes maybe you are right and it doesnt make much sense because its a combo of two different genes. so, basically, calling a gravel a "het super gravel" would be plausible, but het highway is a bit weird.


anyway, about the prices..... 15000 for a highway, and 2900 for a pair of gravels.... it seems a bit odd, you could buy the pair of gravels and buy a male ivory and two or 3 female ivorys, breed gravel to ivory, and produce lots of clutches, and 50% of the hatchlings will be highways. does anyone know more about the prices?

No one is selling Gravels for $2,900.00 for a pair. If you saw them listed for that price anywhere it is a scam. A guaranteed male Gravel would almost be worth more than a Highway because at least when you bred him to Normals you would know that the ones that looked like YB's would be Gravels. With a Highway to Normal breeding most people would have no idea which ones were Gravels and which ones were YB's. This will of course change as the people already working with the gene find the clues that tell them apart, and I know some breeders are already figuring it out.

[spinytail12]

I have gotten a lot of emails on this add. The pics of the snakes that are supposed to be Gravels/ Het Highways dont look like any of the Gravels I have produced. I feel sorry for anyone who has bought these animals thinking they are Gravels. I have pics of my proven Gravel and will send them to anyone interested in the project. I have a couple adult males I'm hoping to prove out this season. I am also breeding for Super Gravels (figers crossed on that one). To my knowledge the place selling the so called Gravels has yet to produce a Highway and I also knew the guy that sold them the original animals, he did not produce a Highway either. He had contacted me when I hatched out my first Highways , he sent me some pics of the animals and I told him then they didn't look like my female. He later contacted me and told me he had sold them.

Like Albey explained Gravels will be more money then a Highway.

Shane

[Pythonfriend]

oh, thats interesting. so there was something very fishy about the pair for 2900.

i expect super gravel to have the highest value, by far, followed by highway and gravel. it doesnt really matter if you breed highway to ivory, or gravel to ivory, both will produce the same amount of highways, 50%. i guess for getting a clean super form, without yellowbelly, and to produce certain combos, gravel will be more useful, and for making more highways highway would be more useful, but over all i would expect similar prices.


anyway, its an incredible gene, i love the optics it can produce.

[TessadasExotics]

The het highway, het superstripe, ect. all got named that first before their modern name came around.

As for the terminology, well it doesn't even come close to making sense imo, like even more than usual. when you say het "X" you are referring to an organism being heterozygous at a locus with mutant gene X and its wild type allele both being present. It takes two different alleles of the same gene to be called heterozygous, its not just the mutant gene. Highway is heterozygous at the locus we are referring to, two different mutant alleles. So if anything, the actual highway is the only true het highway. At least in that sense you can breed a het highway to a het highway and get highways

But I think calling them gravels and just moving on is much easier.

You can NOT breed het Highway(Gravel) to het Highway(Gravel) and get a Highway.

Gravel x Gravel gives you a Super Gravel
Gravel x Yellow Belly gives you a Highway.

Super Gravels and Highways look completely different.

[Slowcountry Balls]

You can NOT breed het Highway(Gravel) to het Highway(Gravel) and get a Highway.

Gravel x Gravel gives you a Super Gravel
Gravel x Yellow Belly gives you a Highway.

Super Gravels and Highways look completely different.

If you read OhhWatALoser's quote a little more carefully, you'll notice that he was saying that a Highway is the only real het Highway, since if you breed a Highway to a Highway you'll get more Highways (along with Ivories and Super Gravels). OhhWatALoser then continues on to say it will just be easier to call the Gravel a Gravel and a Highway a Highway and not use the term het Highway, like what has been done with the Spark and Specter genes.

[RuGGeR]

You can NOT breed het Highway(Gravel) to het Highway(Gravel) and get a Highway.

Gravel x Gravel gives you a Super Gravel
Gravel x Yellow Belly gives you a Highway.

Super Gravels and Highways look completely different.

What would u get

Highway X YB?


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[Slowcountry Balls]

What would u get

Highway X YB?


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You would get Gravels, Yellowbellies, Ivories, and Highways.

[Coopers Constrictors]

I'll take an Asphalt over a Gravel any day of the week.