I agree.
Whats your take of motley and tessera?
If you meant Tessera Motleys, I have no experience hatching any of them out yet, and I have only seen the photos and explanations of others. I am just taking in what I read, and will see what results I get.
Motley and Tessera can be similar in appearance, but there are a lot of differences too. Tessera is dominant, which is the big deal about this gene. The pattern will be created like wildfire, but the addition of the recessive genes will still take some work.
It seems obvious to me that there are Tessera’s homo for Striped or Motley and seem to have been mixed up from the start. It seem as if the group that started Tessera is starting to get a handle on it to me. I read some of the post about Tessera Stripes and Tessera Motleys and it is not completely clear to me exactly what is going on, or I just don‘t see it yet.
Since Motley and Striped may be in my Tessera mix already, I guess I would like to know what he is carrying. I haven’t decided what to bred him to, but most of my multiple homo morphs are Striped, Motley or Bloodred.
Tessera X Lav Blood het Hypo Charcoal would test for four genes, and get Blood. Tessera x Striped Champagne three more and get Striped. I guess I could do something like Tessera X Lava Motley het Caramel to test for three more. I would like to get Dilute and Sunkissed tested/started some how too. In the past, I would never have thought about mixing pattern traits, but now with morphs like Sunkissed Stripeds and Sunkissed Cinders, my mind has been changed.
Personally at this time, I could not identify the Tessera phenotype, the Tessera Motley phenotype or the Tessera Striped pheno. There are others with a few years breeding them, trying to figure it all out. I am sure they have breed Tessera X Okeetee, with no hets, so that should be the Tessera phenotype.
My guy doesn’t fit the perfect striped, black borders he is suppose to have. Maybe he has Aztec influence, I don‘t know. I know I have seen lots of Tessera I like more than mine, so if Striped or Motley is helping, I will try to make them too.
I will trade Motleys for Tessera anytime, well not all of them. I got lucky and picked mine up in a trade. He will certainly make my year more interesting.