#visual het peach hypo lavender diffused

[omg-snakes]

Ringwood x Redbud

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The Peach gene does some weird stuff with color expression as a snake ages.

Here's Ringwood with the incomplete dominant heterozygous form (aka Visual het Peach), in combination with Lavender, Hypo, and Diffused.

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Hi, could we see a picture of ringwood? The daddy of your lavender snakes.

Hello and yes and thank you for asking!

I've been working nights and sleeping during the day and I wasn't able to get outside when the sun was still up, so you get gross fluorescent lighting. I'm sorry.

He's still pretty in these photos, I guess, but the bad lighting and my camera's distaste for the color pink means you don't get to see his full glory. Ringwood is a Visual Het Peach Hypo Lavender Diffused. Dude has a lot going on.

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What genes are involved in the Hypo Plasma Peach? Hypo and Lavender I figured, what's the third? Those noodles are gorgeous!

Hey friend!

Okay so Hypo you already know, that one's easy.

Plasma is the combination of Lavender and Diffused.

Diffused may also be referred to as "Bloodred" or sometimes just "Blood." When the gene was first discovered it was in combination with Masque and Red Coat, which resulted in a snake that was a rich oxblood red color. We now understand that this was three separate genes working together and we refer to the combination of Diffused, Masque, and Red Coat or Red Factor as "Bloodred," but some breeders who have been in the hobby for a long time still use Diffused and Bloodred interchangeably. Diffused can be found in combination with other genes or by itself but it's frequently found with Masque, which is a dominant gene. It's safe to assume that any snake labeled as Diffused is probably also Masque.

Peach is a somewhat newer gene that results in a peachy pink/orange overall tone to the snake that seems to concentrate mostly around the spine as the snake ages. It's an incomplete dominant gene, with a heterozygous "single factor" or "visual het" version that's somewhat peachy and a homozygous "super" form that's very peachy!

I hope that helps!

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Oh I was asking for this years breeding plans! I know some people brumate early so I have no idea when eggs start hitting the ground. And I love listening to people talking about what and why they are pairing. I used to see it a lot more on tumblr but I'm just really getting back into snakes recently :)

Haha! Welp, I misunderstood completely. Sorry!

I actually don't brumate my snakes. In my area, where it doesn't really stay cold long enough for snakes to brumate naturally outdoors, I would have to refrigerate my snakes and honestly that prospect is really terrifying to me. So... I don't do it. I do offer a natural temperature drop and photoperiod reduction during winter, and feeding is less frequent in winter to match the reduced temperatures. In spring we up the lights and temps and food again and my snakes have spring sheds and seem to have normalized hormonal cycles despite not brumating.

As requested, here's a list of my 2022 breeding plans. I don't fully expect that all of these pairings will be successful but I plan for what I'm prepared to handle.

Brian (Amel) x Olaf (Hypo Ice)

Hatshepsut (Sunglow Amel) x Ermengarde (Red Factor Strawberry Anery)

Isis (Snow) x Yeet (Anery)

Left Shark (Lavender Motley) x Chammers (Anery)

Mayonnaise (Blizzard) x Aurelian (Lavender mumble mumble)

Morse (Anery Motley/Stripe) x Chips (Amel Motley/Stripe)

Moth (Strawberry Anery) x Rickroll (Red Factor Snow)

Peekaboo (Classic) x Aurelian (Lavender mumble mumble)

Pepper (Classic Stripe) x Fiasco (Sunglow Amel)

Pumpkin Spice (Hypo Masque) x Ringwood (Hypo Lavender Diffused visual het Peach)

Rosepink (Amel Lavender visual het Peach) x Ringwood (Hypo Lavender Diffused visual het Peach)

Snikki (Amel) x Chammers (Anery)

Sinestro (Cinder) x Valentine (Red Factor Strawberry Anery)

We'll see what happens in the coming months!