What kind of Motley - Page 3

cornmorphs · #21 (**permalink**) 22-05-2007, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by 1949_sam

Thanks hun if he was yours what would you breed him as i'm still no good with all that yet hehe.

Huge thanks hun and yours is a beautiful snake and i love the markings and i love motleys

And yep i know how you feel as i always feel stupid when asking questions! But nige is a star x x

with those markings, then yes i woulkd breed him

1949_sam · #22 (**permalink**) 22-05-2007, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by cornmorphs

with those markings, then yes i woulkd breed him

But what with as i have no idea

cornmorphs · #23 (**permalink**) 22-05-2007, 02:15 PM

something else with unusual markings...

Nerys · #24 (**permalink**) 22-05-2007, 02:16 PM

there are others too, lavender is a "base" gene and so is caramel..

then you get snakes with a combination of genes making them look the colour they do..

like

snow = amel+anery, a snake with both no red AND no black pigment
(this one happens to be a striped, come to that in a bit!)

ghost = hypo+anery, a snake with no red pigment, and reduced black pigment

Nerys · #25 (**permalink**) 22-05-2007, 02:22 PM

then you get different genes that control the patterns, i have used all pictures based on the wild type colour, to show the pattern variation, rather than the colour variation, but you can see how the motley/stripe gene lightens the overall shading

there are 4 main patterns with one sort of sub type..

normal - even saddles and a checked belly

motley - circular saddles and a plain belly

striped - stripes up and down the spine, plain belly

diffuse - mottled belly, lack of side markings, as an adult, saddles fade away

then you also get snakes which are a mix of motley/stripe.. like yours..

if you are a purist, you avoid these, as an ideal motley is totally circley on the back, and an ideal stripe is totally stripey on the back.. personally i like them too for the unusual markings lol..

N

easty · #26 (**permalink**) 22-05-2007, 02:22 PM

Nery, im finding this very useful cheers.

cornmorphs · #27 (**permalink**) 22-05-2007, 02:23 PM

i dont like mixes myself, too messy for me.

1949_sam · #28 (**permalink**) 22-05-2007, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Nerys

then you also get snakes which are a mix of motley/stripe.. like yours..

if you are a purist, you avoid these, as an ideal motley is totally circley on the back, and an ideal stripe is totally stripey on the back.. personally i like them too for the unusual markings lol..

N

But what would you breed him two if he was yours hun

cornmorphs · #29 (**permalink**) 22-05-2007, 02:29 PM

if urs is a stripe motley then i would breed him to a stripe and a motley, see what you get.

Nerys · #30 (**permalink**) 22-05-2007, 02:29 PM

np easty..

patterns... you can of course get snakes in different colours as well as patterns...

so this one is an amel stripe - amel+stripe

this one a snow motley - amel+anery+motley

and this his belly, to show what i meant about clear - this one now belongs to wohic

and whilst we're on bellies.. this is what i mean by checked

even a snow corn, will show the checks.. but in a snow they are offwhite/yellow.. in an amel they are orangey, anerys they are black, like the one above

this is a diffuse belly

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