Snow ZagTec 08-15-17e

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3-week old Snow ZagTec, sister to the Anery male of SOTD 08-06-17. She is 13″ long, eating frozen/thawed pinky mice. I call these ZAGTEC but some call them “Wide-striped” corns. Her $125.00 price includes   

These polygenetic variants do not owe their atypical pattern to a gene mutation, so calling them STRIPED could confuse people into thinking they have a predictable mutation (other than Anery, of course)? No, they’re not really ZigZag NOR Aztec, but since we have seen some ZigZags (aka: Zippers) and some Aztecs that have a degree of broad and linear connected dorsal markings, I adopted this name. It IS possible to get some with similar pattern in both Aztecs and ZigZags, so ZagTec is more of a syndromic tag? These morphs owe their atypical pattern to polygenetic compounds (interactions between common genes), while most pattern morphs in our hobby are the result of gene mutations.