I would like you all to understand that I know genetics very well. I have been doing trial and error for a long time with morphs and genetics.
Someone asked about why if the Ray Hine was so awesome then why did I not shout it from the top of my lungs. There are so many people that does not know or even understand the gene itself. Like I stated awhile back, I had to ask Steve Sykes about it, which he kindly explained to me. The gene itself is still in the process of being tested. There are a few threads out there where people have done testings with the geckos. I want to fully get everything understood about that morph before I "shout" as you say.
Also someone stated about the albinos, and line breeding it to call it another name. Kind of a bad example because for the sake of "not" crossing albino together is where the problem could start. I still call my line the "snow" Just like calling a Blood Tremper Albino, just that. A line can always be created, a morph has to be discovered.
It is so hard to really explain the ray hine gene when most do not understand what is happening.
I am going to do the best to explain what I can so most could understand.
RH x Normal = RH or Normal ( normal being that of the actual numbers you see. ) In some cases, when the RH does not hit, the normal's background will become lighter.
The fact that I combined the genes and line bred them over time sort of unlocked a reaction to all other morphs, when I combine it with another morph. The RH does not do the same thing as the AS. What I have done with two genes that were never brought together was unlock something completely new. "Not a morph" just my line. It is my work, which makes it my line. I would not claim taking the mack snow "morph" and saying it is mine, but what I will do is take a morph, and specify it to become my line. So when people do ask where does my line originate from, I will gladly say "Mack Snow Morph."
I am trying to think of the best example as to what happens when the snow line does not hit. It is as if it still leaves a trace of itself behind no matter what. (Granted, when I sale a cross between my line snow and something else, I always say a cross. I would not call it a snow, but its affects does not come from a mack snow, it comes from the generations of me line breeding to create my line snow.)
If you think of the blizzard trait. When a gecko is het for blizzard, the gecko usually has speckles on it, but some do and some do not. The same goes with the blizzard hypos. Do you realized that because of all the line breeding that breeder did, whenever they do breed that gecko that is what comes of it. The sunset blizzard is reproducible. If the 3 other snows were called something else and not snows guess what. Would I be so called "misrepresenting?" No, but I am not going to say Avangel Mack Snow, I am saying Avangel Snow.
I hope that makes since.
