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Peppermint Tessera!

Nanci said:
My first hatchling of my first clutch is a Peppermint Tessera!!

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Baby B!

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No, to the best of my knowledge, motley or stripe is not involved.
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So these two are the same morph?? :confused:
I'm very confused. Help?!
 
wow nanci, these are just stunning!! man, I knew there was a reason I've avoided this site for a while, no way I'd have time for more right now lmao! but man, makes me want to fill my house up for sure!!! gorgeous
 
I ended up with 2 pepp tesseras, 3 amel tesseras and one amel. The amels are very "candy cane-ish." They have all shed- I'll feed them next Saturday, probably.
 
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What's the genetics on the Amels, hets and poss hets? Cinder obviously but what else? Though I've become taken with the idea of adding a pepp Tessera, one of the Amel Tessera babies might work too.
 
Amels are heterozygous cinder. The grandsire is a normal tessera, possibly red factor or redcoat (whichever one contributes to Cayenne) heterozygous amel and bloodred. So the amels could possibly be heterozygous bloodred, if Big Moose inherited it- but he hasn't been tested.

To the best of my knowledge, motley and stripe are not present- _except_ we know that motley was bred into the early tesseras, so that _could be_ out there in any tessera who has not tested negative.
 
The whole family is gorgeous! I love the hatchlings that have the candy cane stripes - they are so pretty!

Congrats!
 
I was under the impression that "red coat" = "red mask" but ≠ "red factor" (which is the reddening gene found in SMR's cayenne fires). It's something I've been meaning to look into further.
 
Dragonling said:
I was under the impression that "red coat" = "red mask" but ≠ "red factor" (which is the reddening gene found in SMR's cayenne fires). It's something I've been meaning to look into further.
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Red Factor is dominant, Red Coat is recessive. About 4-5 years ago, they were thought to be the same, just called different things. I had that convo with Don S several years ago, before it was proven that there were separate genes.
In talking with Donovan Winterberg, he said that he and others have proven the dominant red gene (RF) to be the same as Salmon.
I see conflicting information on Salmon vs Coral so I continued to call the dominant red gene Red Factor.
I have the dominant red gene (RF), in the sibling to Nanci's male, Firefly. They were produced by John F, out of a Cayenne Fire female.

I do not know if there are different lines of Cayenne, or Sunglow, where some are dominant, some are recessive. I do know that the Cayenne Fire that Firefly and Cinaed (my RF Tessera) came from carried the dominant red gene. I proved that in 2013 with Cinaed.

I do not know if Don is using "Red Mask" for the dominant or recessive gene, so I cannot answer that part.
 
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