Quote Originally Posted by Albey View Post
I am still trying to grasp the whole same Allele thing but I know that when the news of Mark hatching it was released in a thread over on Kingsnake it caused quite a commotion. I saved the thread on my desktop but it is gone now. There was some heated discussion going on and I know Anthony McCain was one of the principle players but it seemed civil enough. Who knows why it was pulled. I have a call into Mark but I don’t know if he will get back to me or not. The only way it matters though is if it is in fact an Ivory Super Stripe right?
yes, as far as I know, that would break the current allele theory on the SuperStripe project... We probably wouldn't be able to tell if it was other than to breed it because there may not be anything visibly different from a regular Ivory - if such a combination exists at all. It will be useful to see what this particular animal produces, but by the time anything is produced by it, we may already have a good idea what's going on with all the Spector x Normal breedings that will hopefully occur in 2009.

I personally have a "possible spector" project that I'm working on now, and hopefully this year will prove it out. My original "possible spector" will be bred to a yellow belly male.. I was hoping to get my hands on an Ivory male, but ends up that a yellow belly male will have to do... hopefully I'll hit a cross this year... in 2007, she produced some nice spider crosses (2.0) and 2 possible spectors (1.1) plus what appears to be a regular spider and a few normals... I'm not holding my breath on this one, but I'm quite hopeful it will prove out. I believe the SuperStripes are really nice, and certainly will be popular for a LONG time... If they are harder to produce (not like a bumble bee or pewter for example), it would actually increase their value as well... Here's to hoping!!

Regards,
Bristen.