• Responding to email notices you receive.
    **************************************************
    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

    =====================
    Posted 08/15/2025
    =====================


    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

    =====================
    Addendum: 01/10/2026
    =====================


    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

BEL paradox hatching

It will be interesting to see if it or the paradox ivory produced are fertile or not. If they are the result of 2 sperm fertilizing one egg then I would think that would make them triploid, and as a result, infertile.

It would make sense that 2 mojo alleles from dad could produce the BEL and a normal allele from mom produces the normal coloration, that when both are expressed produce the funky paradox effect.
 
garweft said:
It will be interesting to see if it or the paradox ivory produced are fertile or not. If they are the result of 2 sperm fertilizing one egg then I would think that would make them triploid, and as a result, infertile.

It would make sense that 2 mojo alleles from dad could produce the BEL and a normal allele from mom produces the normal coloration, that when both are expressed produce the funky paradox effect.
Click to expand...
I thought about that triploid theory, but would that effect reproduction in a paradox or chimira snake? Has any paradox boid ever been proven to be sterile?
 
Most "paradox" animals produced are paradox albinos, produced by parents that would be expected to produce albinos. I know many of these have bred and produced viable offspring, although in almost every occasion the paradox part has proven to not be genetic. This hints to the paradox part being caused by something else whether that be environmental or some other unknown extrinsic factor. There is a long road between genotype and the expressed phenotype. Researchers are still figuring out alot of what goes on during the expression of an allele.

This animal, and the other paradox ivory, were produced by a co-dom morph parent bred to a normal. No supers were expected in these breedings, but paradox supers were produced. Somehow the offspring may have recieved 2 of the co-dom alleles, the most likely way being 2 alleles from dad. Then again this might not be the case. You could always look into getting a kerotype done, and compared to a known normal animal. Simply counting the number of chromosomes would provide the answer.

I really hope that it does reproduce for you, and that it's offspring have a chance of coming out similar. Then again if it doesn't you really do have a one of a kind. Either way balls are becoming a very interesting model for genetic study. :yesnod:
 
Back
Top