inherited pattern on enigma leos

[boywonder]

i was wondering if anyone knew if the patterns on adult enigmas were similar to the pattern of their enigma parent or if the other parents pattern also had an effect? for example, if i mated a bell enigma male with loads of dark markings and lavender to a bell sunglow (super hypo) would i end up with hypo looking enigmas? also with recessive morphs such as a reverse stripe. if i bred my male bell enigma to a reverse stripe bell, would all the enigma offspring be het reverse stripe? if i bred one of these het reverse stripe enigma offspring to a reverse stripe bell would i get reverse stripe bell enigmas or does the enigma gene override the stripe gene?

 

[paulnj]

Color definately passes through to the offspring of an enigma cross and patterns do too ..to some degree.

Getting stripes on them isn't very easy, but with time we should see more striped enigmas.

 

[boywonder]

so it could be a good direction to take my breeding prodjects then, bold stripe bell enigmas

 

[paulnj]

I think so.

Might I ask where you got a female SSTA het raptor and what you plan to breed it too(tremper line enigma....?)?

 

[boywonder]

the tremper super snow was bred by a guy in the uk, her sibling was a tremper snow eclipse (banded snow raptor)
we're not sure if she is actualy expressing eclipse, as she already has red eyes, but she does have white top lip and nose, the white is somehow shinier than the rest of her, she's from two mack snows het raptor, i haven't bred her yet as she's only 55g but she's growing at a steady gram a week so it won't be long now.
i plan on breeding her with a raptor male this year, and next year an enigma het tremper, if i get any males from this years enigma no hets to the raptor male pairing

 

[paulnj]

:main_thumbsup:

 

[boywonder]

thats the bell enigma male in my avatar, cool isn't he, took lots of persuading to get his owner to part with him, plenty of ££££ too

 

[Mel&Keith]

We were able to get Striped Enigmas from two non-striped parents. Both of them carry stripe genes though. Here's a link:
Enigma pics