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Originally Posted by Uroboros
I'm sure it means something you you guys (I don't do.... burms?).
BUT, doesn't the "Patternless" part kind of exclude the "Labrynth" part? hehe Like a Pied Lucy ball. :P
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I can certainly see why this is confusing. I'll try to explain this a little bit. There are three common pattern mutations in burms at the moment. All of which are proven recessive mutations. You have the Green (also known as patternless) the labyrinth, and the granite. What I did that is so unique is I combined the labyrinth and the patternless(or green) into one snake. When I did this the two pattern mutations canceled each other out when they are combined. Because of this there is no pattern at all, and it really shows nothing that looks like the labyrinth. It looks a lot more like a regurlar patternless, although it is actually quite different from that as well as you can see.
To combine the two mutations into one snake you first have to breed an green and labyirnth together. In this case a Albino patternless female bred to a labyrinth het albino male. This resulted in normal and albino babies that were het for both green and labyrinth. So, you then have to raise a pair of those babies up. In this case I raised a normal het albino patternless labyrinth female, and an albino male het patternless labyrinth. When I bred those together I have a 1/16 shot of either getting a albino patternless labyrinth or a patternless labyrinth. Last year out of 28 eggs I produced 2 patternless labyrinths. This year out of 37 eggs I only got the one albino patternless labyrinth.
So since I know what the parent's genetics are, and because these babies looks so unique and different from the labs and patternless burms, and because of how so few of them I produced in each clutch, that tell you they must be homozygous for both labyrinth, and Patternless. Even though they really don't look anything like the labyirnth burm at all. Beleive me, it threw me for a loop last season. I really wasn't expecting them to look the way they look either. I'm very happy with it though. The patternless Labyrinths and albino patternless labyrinths are a truely patternless burm. I've even thought about calling them a true patternless or something like that, but since people already call normal green burms patternless burms, it would just make things too confusing.
As it so often happens someone names a mutation something, then later on a new mutation comes along that is more fitting of the name that something else already has.