We discovered a way to tell if your BEL is carrying Banana. I breed a lot of Banana BEL to make my Blue Eyeds. Previously we didn’t think there was a way to tell if they were carrying the Banana gene. One of my employees who IDs and sets up babies discovered this method. I thought it was interesting and wanted to share it with you guys. It is performed by illuminating behind the eyes. If they glow red they are Banana and if not they aren’t.
wow that is really amazing. Never would have thought of that. Thanks for sharing
How cool! I’ve used a blacklight in the past but never thought of illuminating the head.
great tip, gonna have to remember this
Thats awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Great tip Mike, thanks for sharing!
Excellent info. I wonder if that will carry true with other banana combos. Once you stack other genes sometimes it can be hard to tell. Solid update
Sure fire way to tell for sure.
That is very useful. Thanks for the tip.
It’s the little things in the hobby that make such a positive impact. Great to know thank you very much!
Any particular reason you use Banana bels as breeders?
Do Banana bels ever show spots?
How does this even work?
They probably did a pairing with a banana bel, check the eye thing then paired that particular baby in the future and got the same result?
So i just hatched a bel from a bamboo clutch. Seeing this post when this thread started I remembered this. I also just found that if you light the head of bamboo it also has red pupils. I wasn’t supposed to get a bel with my pairing. Obviously my bel complex was bamboo in the pairing. The dame was sold as black pewter.
She definitely doesn’t look like just a black pewter, though I’m not entirely sure what BEL gene she could have in her. Maybe mystic or mojave?
My thoughts too! I’m going to go hold a flashlight to my banana mystic’s head when I get home
Might have something to do with why they have red pupils in photos, but I’m speaking from complete ignorance in regards to reptile ocular systems
Question with this method. I’ve had great luck with it this year with coral glow super mojaves and crystals.
Garrick DeMeyer recently brought up that super lessers/butters have visibly red pupils as opposed to the super mojo’s and such. Will this trick still work for them as well? Or does the lower amount of melanin in the pupil on the lessers make the whole eye glow regardless? Trying to figure out if a new BEL I picked up is super lesser or possible banana. Former owner has no idea on genetics but he was part of a group purchase.
That’s crazy and very helpful. Thank you for sharing
