Tessera x Tessera Oddity

[Palmetto Reptiles]

Along with a normal anery and 18 tesseras this came from a tessera x tessera pairing. No other pattern morphs involved.

 

[RobbiesCornField]

That's a sweet zigzag!

 

[airenlow]

Retained sperm?

 

[Nanci]

Hmm. Well, that's mysterious.

 

[Palmetto Reptiles]

The only thing that was ever bred to the female was a salmon snow. There was nothing that resembled this in that clutch. The salmon snow is proven to not be het for stripe or motley in two separate breedings. I have no zig-zag pattern blood lines in my collection. It wants to have some sort of striped feature.

 

[Shiari]

Just a pattern oopsie. My charcoal and my butter produced two of these guys last year.

 

[Palmetto Reptiles]

Charcoal and butter tesseras?

 

[Shiari]

No tessera involved. Completely normal patterned charcoal and butter. Just goes to show that this isn't because of tessera, because any clutch can have them.

 

[cornsonly]

I would gladly take this bad snake off your hands!!! lol

 

[Palmetto Reptiles]

I would quickly jump on the zig-zag theory had this popped out of a clutch that did not involve tessera x tessera. With this combination being so new and tessera's history so short I will wait until breeding trials tell the story. I'm not saying it is anything special, but to discount the possibility that it is related to the tessera morph simply by looking at the snake or a photo if it is too much of a knee-jerk reaction for me to jump to.

 

[gelshark]

what does the undercarriage look like?

 

[dave partington]

Nice looker. Definite holdback.
What are both of your Tessera's het for?
I see similar pattern pop here and there from non-tess, from pairings of non-related lines, and there's a lot of 'dorsally-stretched-connected-lined-pattern' morphs and around.
I SUSPECT it MIGHT be some sort of basic primitive trait, maybe some sort of on/off switch/gene at play? And even then, there might different genetic reasons for pattern anomalies. Some play well together, others- not so much.
Your baby has pretty colors too.
Thanks for sharing.

 

[BSLMichael]

Since tessera is dominate could there technically be a "super" form of tessera?

Grats on the keeper. Defiantly interested in your findings

 

[dave partington]

Since tessera is dominate could there technically be a "super" for of tessera?

Yes, here: http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=129101
I've paired 1.1 of the originals together this year.

 

[rich333]

Does it really matter? I mean seriously.....a beautiful specimen, regardless of it's genetic connections. If it's proven to be a simple genetic anomaly.... And nothing directly related to the tessera morph.... Would that make it worth less in our eyes? Would that make it a less desirable animal to own? Not in my eyes.

This post isn't directed towards the OP, it's just a generalization for all of us.
I hatch NORMALS that I think are by far prettier than most morphs on the market today...yet you can't give them away? Lol

 

[BSLMichael]

I'd like to see something like this being consistently replicated! Would be nice if there was a way to reliably predict a beauty like this one being born.

 

[fyrefocks]

I paired 2 tesseras this year. Unfortunately there were only 6 eggs and both parents were het for motley so I didn't get much of a sample size. I certainly didn't get anything like this.

It looks like a zigzag to me, but I'm hoping I'm wrong. It IS awesome though!

 

[MysticExotics]

Tara & I worked on a couple Tessera clutches a couple years ago, one being a Tessera x Alabama (WC). We got three Aztec type babies, we started calling them "Taztecs".
We sent pics to DonS, who said he's seen the Tessera gene have some affect on the patterns/colors of normal siblings, but he had never seen this before.
Here is the thread for those babies.
I have one of the babies, I beleive Tara still has the other two.