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genetic stripe question

P&A Pythons

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I have the someone who wants to get rid of his proven m genetic stripe ball python but the stripe looks broken in 2 or 3 spots. If I where to breed him to whatever will the same breaks appear or is it possible to get a baby with no breaks. Please forgive me if this seems like a dumb question but im fairley new genetics and dont know that much about them. Thanks for your time
 
I'm hoping to produce my first genetic stripe this year so I don't have personal experience yet. However this subject has interested me since I witnessed some very odd results in a friends collection years ago.

My friend had a pair of pretty nice striped ball pythons. Don't remember how close to perfect they were but they were nice. First clutch from breeding them together you could barely tell the babies where stripes. Lots of side pattern, sort of looked like reduced black pattern animals. Everyone in the clutch was like that. Next clutch he got from the same pair and every baby was a good stripe like mom and dad, all much better than all their full siblings from the first clutch.

This got me thinking there might be an incubation factor. My friend didn't know of anything odd that happened the first year but maybe it could even have been pre lay temps.

I posted this info before and a breeder with lots of stripe experience indicated he had tried playing with incubation temps and it didn't matter for stripe quality and it was all selective breeding. So sorry not a conclusive post but just throwing it out there as maybe someone can make some since of my friends experience and maybe experiment and come up with some good info the share on how to get perfect stripes.
 
Randy they are not discussing a normal with a dorsal stripe, Genetic stripe is a rec morph. What you are refering to is more like the PE stripe project that I don't beleive was ever proved out completely.
 
No, I'm talking about genetic stripes. One year every baby in the clutch from homozygous genetic stripe to homozygous genetic stripe had some side pattern and the next clutch from the same pair all the babies where much better. The genetics didn't change so some other variable seemed to determine how good the baby genetic stripes came out. Basically I’m not convinced genetics is the only difference between the perfect genetic stripes and the less than perfect genetic stripes. But I’ve not found an experienced genetic stripe breeder who will confirm any secrets for hatching the high quality genetic stripes.
 
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