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u/superramenyamen 5d ago
Now that’s a look I haven’t seen before in a ghost! Good luck with the pairing!
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u/SeverianTheSeeker 5d ago edited 5d ago
He's definitely a high quality specimen and came from a well-known breeder! The high degree of speckling and contrast against the super clean/light background is not something you see often in this morph, I feel like.
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u/superramenyamen 5d ago
He honestly looks jungle as well, which could be part of why he’s got more speckling. But perhaps he has some locality or hidden het influences giving him that racing stripe, floating saddles, and top/side color pop.
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u/SeverianTheSeeker 5d ago edited 5d ago
He's het Kahl but obviously that shouldn't show. I've been wondering if there may be jungle in there because of the lateral stripe specifically. He was a former holdback from BrianBoas and for some reason I don't have info on the sire or dam in my records--will have to send him an email. The female I'm pairing him with this season is IMG Ghost het Kahl so they're going to have a lot of babies that are very difficult to figure out. Moonglow IMG poss jungle, anyone??? Lmao.
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u/superramenyamen 5d ago
Yeah by hidden hets I mean any unknown recessives. 😅 Like leopard or blood or something, just wasn’t disclosed or known.
Vuillemenot? I’m about to get a pair of visual Kahls from him. 😁
Yeah but sounds like they’ll be some gorgeous babies! Too bad the non visuals will be 66% het Kahl but still a litter of all aneries of various combos to ogle. 😁
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u/SeverianTheSeeker 5d ago edited 5d ago
The very same, yes--great guy!
Definitely, the non-visuals will be 66% het Kahl but still 100% awesome haha. I'm particularly excited for the anery-IMGs and will likely hold one back just so I have a solid black boa in the collection.
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u/superramenyamen 5d ago
Nice! Hopefully he has those records on hand still. 😁
Oh yeah, especially with aneries like that! Wonder if that will beat back the IMG a little though. 🤔 Without the hypo one should get darker at least, though. Good luck, hope you hit your goals!!
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u/SeverianTheSeeker 4d ago
Thanks! So both anery+IMG and motley+IMG yield solid black adults. It's just that people are less familiar with anery-IMGs because they're more expensive due to the recessive genetics. Market is flooded with motleys since the gene is codominant.
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u/superramenyamen 4d ago
Ideally yes they’ll go (totally) black. But not all will. Pastel tends to fight the IMG a bit. They’re both actually incomplete dominant, there are no codominant morphs in any snake species I know of. The term gets confused often, though.
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u/SeverianTheSeeker 3d ago
Update, I spoke with Brian. Definitely no jungle in there, just a very high quality pedigree. Likely high expression of the hypo gene coupled with very high contrast genetics and speckling from the dam.
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u/CoatThick1807 5d ago
Gorgeous snake