Questions about enigmas.

[cjreptiles]

Is the Enigma believed to be co-dom now? I thought origionally it was thought to be co-dom with red eyes being the super form, but then red eyes were proven to be the bell form, making enigmas dominant, not co dominant. There definitely is a difference in my eyes though, if an enigma can be proven homo instead of het, it should be worth more, because that means it will throw only enigmas, compaired to only 50% enigmas by a het enigma. being dominant means that homo and het both have the same phenotypes, but they are still different genotypes. Even though its harder to know if you have a het or a homo, there still is a difference, and technically It could be proven out if you are willing to test breed for a year.

As far as I know, the enigma is still believe to be dominant. Red eyes are the Bell form. I should have read this before I made my last post (I've done that twice in one thread now!) because I agree - there is an important difference between het. and homo. dom. enigmas.

With regard to Macks...a homozygous dominant individual is a super snow, a heterozygous individual is a Mack snow. Doesn't matter that the trait is co-dominant, you can always have a heterozygote in diploid species, which, of course, leopard geckos are.