PUREST BEL GENETIC advice needed

gabriel76 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-11-2009, 10:07 AM

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 · #2 (**permalink**) 02-11-2009, 10:33 AM

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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 · #3 (**permalink**) 08-11-2009, 09:57 AM

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

Blackecho · #4 (**permalink**) 08-11-2009, 10:24 AM

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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 · #5 (**permalink**) 08-11-2009, 10:25 AM

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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 · #6 (**permalink**) 08-11-2009, 11:00 AM

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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!

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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 · #7 (**permalink**) 08-11-2009, 11:16 AM

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 · #8 (**permalink**) 08-11-2009, 11:22 AM

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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 · #9 (**permalink**) 08-11-2009, 11:24 AM

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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 · #10 (**permalink**) 08-11-2009, 02:39 PM

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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).

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