Hey Everyone!
Some of you may have seen that really busy Golden Eye we recently posted on social media. The entire clutch from the normals all the way to the Magpies were very interesting. So we got to looking at them a bit closer after they had all emerged from their eggs. Sat them out side by side and determined that we have a new gene at play. This was completely unexpected, but now looking at the pairing and the results we cannot un-see it!
We want to introduce you to the Sunder and Super Sunder. The inspiration for this name came from the pattern changing that this gene does. It breaks the dorsal pattern up into pieces. The Sunder, like a lot of incomplete dominate Blood Python genes is a bit subtle. But we took a lot of comparison photographs posted below to help illustrate what is going on. The Super Sunder is much more extreme in appearance.
What we find so exciting about this new project is the dramatic affect it had on the Golden Eye gene. It blew the normal thick dorsal stripe on the Golden Eyes apart. This gives us the ability to flood the Golden Eyes with even more color. And these babies show this off before even having a single shed.
The Sunder gene offers a whole new direction for some of our projects. What could it do with Ivorys or 007s? Pixels would be a great way to go. And even some of the busier pattern morphs like ZigZag could be really great!
As always, feel free to send us an email if you would like to talk about this new project, or anything else we have going on here at CBE. Enjoy!
Normal (Top)
Sunder (Bottom)
Sunder GE (Top)
Normal (Bottom)
Sunder (Right)
Super Sunder Golden Eye (Left)
Left to right: Sunder, T+ Albino Sunder Magpie, Super Sunder GE, Normal, Sunder GE
Normal
T+ Albino Sunder
Sunder
T+ Albino Sunder Golden Eye
T+ Albino Super Sunder Golden Eye
T+ Albino Sunder Magpie
Dam: Sunder Golden Eye het T+
Sire: T+ Albino Sunder Golden