After looking through the pics I've collected I came up with something...
All of the non red eyed Enigmas have these characteristics:
- Lots of black spotting (mainly just on tubercles)
- Faint amount of dark blotches on body
- A faded pastel hypoish background
- Spotted head (no blotches)
- Almost patternless tail (spots only, no blotches)
Now for the red eyed Enigmas characteristics:
- Heavily spotted/blotched body and head (both black and brown)
- Background still looks hypoish, but is not as faded
- Regular spotted/blotched tail
(Kelli posted these pics on Fauna earlier this year)
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The original thought was the non red eyed were the 'Het' form and the red eyed were the 'Super'. This all changed when Kelli hatched a clutch from a red eyed Enigma x Patternless and got ONE Enigma and a normal. If the red eyed Enigma was the dominant form of a co-dom/dom morph all the offspring would be Enigmas. The new idea was the red eyed Enigma is an albino Enigma. How's that? There's black on them; they can't be albino? Well a few members here did some searching and found a type of albinism called Occular Albinism. It's a type of albinism where only the eyes are effected. So that seems to be figured out.
However, now we have this...
I forgot who took this pic, but give yourself credit...
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Mark Bell (first produced the Enigma) had this at NARBC Tinley Park and called it an Albino Enigma. Now if the Enigmas had some kind of gene that only allowed albinism to affect their eyes this shouldn't exist.
Here's my thought: The Enigmas do indeed have a 'Super' form and it is the more heavily spotted/blotched form. When in their 'Het' form Enigmas act normally and produces fully amelanistic animals. However, when breed together they create a 'Super' form that cannot produce fully amelanistic animals. I can't explain why the 'Super' form is acting as if the morph were simply dominant and didn't produce 100% Enigmas when crossed to a Patternless...
What do you think?
All of the non red eyed Enigmas have these characteristics:
- Lots of black spotting (mainly just on tubercles)
- Faint amount of dark blotches on body
- A faded pastel hypoish background
- Spotted head (no blotches)
- Almost patternless tail (spots only, no blotches)
Now for the red eyed Enigmas characteristics:
- Heavily spotted/blotched body and head (both black and brown)
- Background still looks hypoish, but is not as faded
- Regular spotted/blotched tail
(Kelli posted these pics on Fauna earlier this year)
View attachment 2873
The original thought was the non red eyed were the 'Het' form and the red eyed were the 'Super'. This all changed when Kelli hatched a clutch from a red eyed Enigma x Patternless and got ONE Enigma and a normal. If the red eyed Enigma was the dominant form of a co-dom/dom morph all the offspring would be Enigmas. The new idea was the red eyed Enigma is an albino Enigma. How's that? There's black on them; they can't be albino? Well a few members here did some searching and found a type of albinism called Occular Albinism. It's a type of albinism where only the eyes are effected. So that seems to be figured out.
However, now we have this...
I forgot who took this pic, but give yourself credit...
View attachment 2872
Mark Bell (first produced the Enigma) had this at NARBC Tinley Park and called it an Albino Enigma. Now if the Enigmas had some kind of gene that only allowed albinism to affect their eyes this shouldn't exist.
Here's my thought: The Enigmas do indeed have a 'Super' form and it is the more heavily spotted/blotched form. When in their 'Het' form Enigmas act normally and produces fully amelanistic animals. However, when breed together they create a 'Super' form that cannot produce fully amelanistic animals. I can't explain why the 'Super' form is acting as if the morph were simply dominant and didn't produce 100% Enigmas when crossed to a Patternless...
What do you think?
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