What is she?

[LZRDGRL]

Yesterday, we had a storm (no tornados hit, though), so I lost phone and Internet and have to post this pic from work this morning:

This little wee one hatched yesterday night: Miracle

She's a tiny hatchling and still absorbing her yolk sack (strange body shape!).

Her tail looks Enigma, but her head doesn't, and she doesn't behave like an Enigma, either. Otherwise, I would just think, Reverse Stripe Tremper. But shouldn't Trempers have a brownish-banded tail, not white? Her dad was my Mack Snow Lavender Stripe, Santiago (that's his baby photo). As mother, I have down Karachi, a Wild Caught Montane. She sat on the eggs, which I labeled accordingly then, and the eggs were exactly the shape and size her eggs always are, and she was due laying that day. But the baby doesn't look like she. IF it is Enigma, the only possibility for an egg mix-up would be that the mother is La Surprise, a Mack Snow Enigma het Blizzard. She was part of Santiago's harem, but never laid any eggs (as far as I know!!). The other females of his harem were one Mack Snow, and two Mack Snow females. None of them is het Tremper.

Can it be that the baby's colors are not fully developed yet, if it was premature? The egg was laid on February 17th, incubated 3 weeks at 82F, and the rest at 89F. I don't think it was too early for it to hatch (?). I still have a second egg from that pairing, so I wonder what that baby will look like...

Chrissy

 

[artgecko]

Very cool looking leo! Isn't this hobby fun? Always a mystery to solve...

 

[Taquiq]

Awesome leo!

 

[im faster]

Looks amazing buried haven't a clue

 

[richardrojas]

Nice one!!!!! It look some sort of Snow Albino Enigma but I can still seeing a stripe as well. Nevertheless a nice looking baby. Are you going to be any time soon at the Wheaton show?

 

[justindh1]

I'd say that there is some hidden genetics involved. More then likely both parents being het with some form of albino, probably Tremper. Eye shots would really help. That is probably the most logical idea but could be something else. Just looks so much like a Reverse Stripe Tremper for me to think it's not. Also the body does seem to be a little misshaped. It could be a genetic problem.

 

[LZRDGRL]

Here's the clutch mate and possibly the riddle's solution:

Mirage

Now, this one is clearly a Reverse Stripe Tremper; it has much more yellow on the body and a completely striped tail. When I look VERY closely, the first one also has a faint white stripe all down its tail (I thought at first it's slime from the egg). They MUST be Tremper Albinos. That also means they're not from the Mack Snow group at all. There's no het Tremper in my MS group; one of the males was even het Bell.

I must have messed up the eggs from two different breeding groups. That never happened before. I'm getting old :main_lipsrsealed::main_angry::main_laugh:

If it's from my Tremper breeding groups, there are only two possible fathers; my avatar Nikita, and Lester. Strange, strange. None of them is a Reverse Stripe. Some females in Lester's harem are. Since I don't know who the parents are, I'll not be selling those two. They look so much alike--I'm hoping that I get another clutch like this that is correctly labeled, then I know whose children they are :main_evilgrin:

To richardrojas: Nope, sorry, I don't think I'll vend in Wheaton this year; that's 7 hours to drive for me. I'm doing Kentucky shows this year. I sold at Shepherdsville, KY in April and will be in Murray, KY on July 9th. Maybe somewhere some time in between. But I only do shows on Saturdays, not Sundays. So Indianapolis is out of the question this year; they switched to Sundays all of a sudden. I'm a choir singer on Sundays

Chrissy