black hole/bee?

[boutiquegecko]

I know one is enigma mack eclipse and one enigma mack. What I'd like to know is if the mack enigmas are throwing solid black eyes (no one's figured out why yet?) how do we know what eye gene is present in the "black hole"? Is it the eclipse gene or the mack? Do we assume it's the eclipse gene since the eye in the mack/enigma cross is random? Opinions?

 

[Halley]

Don't we have to test breed to know? I don't think there is any other way to know for sure, you simply can't, tell, without test breeding.

 

[godzillizard]

From what I've been told, they just look different--the tell tale white nose/limbs would suggest Eclipse. But still, there's going to be ALOT of proof breeding going on after this season :main_huh: The Mack gene acts as an adjuvant in alot of combinations--causeing a higher incidence of black eyes when combined with blizzards, and causing extremely dark (solid black-looking in hatchlings) eyes when combined with Enigma, and so on and so on...it has a strange effect on the other genes that it's combined with...similar to how the Enigma gene tends to "pimp-out" (that's a scientific term) whatever morph you breed them to, it's just a more subtle effect. At least, thats the conclusion that I've come to...so far...