LESSER PLATINUM

Co-Dominant Morph:  Heterozygous is Lesser Platinum, Homozygous or Super Form is the Cleanest Form of Leusistic

Morph Variations:

Platinum (Lesser and Platty Daddy Sibling Het Gene),

 Lesser Pastel

Spider Lesser Platinum (Lesser Bee)

Woma Lesser

Lesser Platinum Spider Pastel  (Queen Bee)

Lesser Platinum Ghost Hypo

Lesser Platinum Pinstripe (King pins)

Lesser / Mojave Leucistic

The lesser platinum is one of the most fascinating snakes out there.  These were first produced by Ralph Davis from breeding his original WC Platinum male to normal females.  The babies came out as what Ralph called Lesser platinum because although similar they had less fading than the platinum, therefore lesser platinum.  What turned out interesting is that when breeding a lesser to a lesser he expected to get a platinum but instead produced a leucistic the cleanest in my opinion too.  When breeding a lesser to one of the normal looking sibling that was produced from a platinum more platinum ball pythons were hatched.  This leads us to believe that there is a hidden gene which only shows up when paired with other genes in what has come to be called the platinum complex.  These include Mojave, Butter, Phantom, Lesser and possibly a few others.  All of these genes although holding different phenotypes (looks) seem to be pairs on the same allele.  When bred together with its other half (lesser x lesser / Mojave x Mojave etc) they produce lucy types but are all distinguishable from each other and when bred to each other (lesser x Mojave / lesser x phantom etc) they produce lucy forms again all distinguishable from each other.  When bred to a normal appearing offspring from the platinum they produce platinum types, the platinum is the lesser form, the butter daddy is the butter form and I think the phantom 44 is the phantom version.  Either way a fascinating project that we are very excited to be working with and can’t wait to see what more breeding in this group will produce!

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