PUREST BEL GENETIC advice needed

[gabriel76]

I'm getting a female lesser platty next month and will get a Blue eyed leucistic male next year. What is the best combination to get the purest white and brighter blue eyes ? I read somewhere that butters make the purest? what should the male be then? butter x butter?

[alan1]

Originally Posted by gabriel76

I'm getting a female lesser platty next month and will get a Blue eyed leucistic male next year. What is the best combination to get the purest white and brighter blue eyes ? I read somewhere that butters make the purest? what should the male be then? butter x butter?

super lesser, super butter, or a mix of the two, will give you the cleanest BEL
have always thought lesser and butter are the same morph tho...

[Ssthisto]

I've heard that the Russo leucistics - White Diamonds - are the purest white on the Whitesnake complex.

[Blackecho]

Originally Posted by alan1

super lesser, super butter, or a mix of the two, will give you the cleanest BEL
have always thought lesser and butter are the same morph tho...

Agreed.

[Blackecho]

Originally Posted by Ssthisto

I've heard that the Russo leucistics - White Diamonds - are the purest white on the Whitesnake complex.

Don't know enough about these to comment, but Ssthisto is usually right

[Metal_face]

Originally Posted by alan1

super lesser, super butter, or a mix of the two, will give you the cleanest BEL
have always thought lesser and butter are the same morph tho...

yep, agree with you there buddy!

Originally Posted by Ssthisto

I've heard that the Russo leucistics - White Diamonds - are the purest white on the Whitesnake complex.

these arent compatable with any other snake though are they?

[bannrikae]

I know that mojave and mojave give a BEL with a brownish head, but what would you get from a lesser and mojave?
would that be just as clean as lesser and lesser or would you get some level of brown from that combo?

[alan1]

Originally Posted by bannrikae

I know that mojave and mojave give a BEL with a brownish head, but what would you get from a lesser and mojave?
would that be just as clean as lesser and lesser or would you get some level of brown from that combo?

correct...
you'd get a slight head discolouration

[Metal_face]

Originally Posted by bannrikae

I know that mojave and mojave give a BEL with a brownish head, but what would you get from a lesser and mojave?
would that be just as clean as lesser and lesser or would you get some level of brown from that combo?

i have seen mojave x mojave bels that are as clean as the whitest blackEL ive also seen butter x butter bels that are really dull and slightly brown. tbh its all down the picking the cleanest snakes and luck really.

mojo x lesser 9 times out of ten wont be as clean as a lesser x lesser but then when breeding back down through a lesser x mojo bel the outcomes will be a bit more varied

[Ssthisto]

Originally Posted by Metal_face

these arent compatable with any other snake though are they?

Yes, they are.

ALL of the alleles on the whitesnake gene locus - Butter, Lesser, Mojave, Mystery-Dilute-Special-Hidden, Phantom, Russo het Leucistic and the het form of NERD's Gargoyle - are compatible and produce "something interesting" when combined heterozygously with other morphs on the same gene locus.

If I remember rightly, though, a Russo Het Leucistic/Mojave looks more like a super Mojo (and so does a Mojave/Phantom, and presumably a Mojave/Het Gargoyle).