great tip, gonna have to remember this
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Thats awesome! Thanks for sharing!
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Great tip Mike, thanks for sharing!
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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
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Sure fire way to tell for sure.
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That is very useful. Thanks for the tip.
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It’s the little things in the hobby that make such a positive impact. Great to know thank you very much!
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Any particular reason you use Banana bels as breeders?
Do Banana bels ever show spots?
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How does this even work?
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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.
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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?
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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
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How interesting, thanks for sharing. Now its trying to remember that in the future lol
I’m sorry, I know this is an old post and doesn’t apply to me but those pictures are killing me! 
I saw this photo pop up in the categories feed and I just HAD to click on it to see what in the world was going on and I have no regrets.
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Very helpful - thanks for sharing!
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