Hatched: Espresso and Mojave clutches

So let's start with the Espresso project... We line bred the original female as previously mentioned. Given the fact that in 2006 I had a normal pastel and a very pewter looking animal, it seemed to be obvious to me that there was something co-dom going on. So I line bred the 3 darker males from the 2006 clutch (this was her first clutch and this F15_2009 clutch is her second). I was expecting to hit some kind of super form - a patternless ball python I thought is what I was going to see.

I was extremely disappointed with the results of this clutch. There's a lot of work involved in this project, but the 2009 clutch produced basically a clutch of normals - what I had feared for this clutch. They are dark brown like the males I used to line breed. If we would have a co-dom project, from my understand, 3/4 of the clutch should be dark like mom, and 1/4 of the clutch should be supers. Now, on a 7-egg clutch, I actually could of just missed the super form. On 4 eggs you would normally get 1 supers and on 8 you would get 2 supers (in a perfect world). So the odds of missing the super completely is not that surprising really. What are you thoughts? Should I dump this project and move on to other things? Please feel free to email Info@RoyalGemReptiles.com, I'm interested in your opinion on this project - specially if you have experience proving out projects.

Now for the Mojave clutch.. F16_2009 is the clutch ID and my biggest female produced it. She'll hit around 3500g before breeding season starts normally. She was eating rabbits before I got her (I switched her back to rats effortlessly). These babies are normally large, strong and very alive lol! Odds were not as good as other clutches, but not bad. We got 4 Mojaves in this clutch. But the really cool part about this one is that we got 3 females out of the 4 :)

We have a clutch of another dinking project hatching now... this is from a very black male I have. He produced a clutch in 2008 and I have some held back. He was bred to two females this year, which produced to clutches. This first clutch is F31_2009. There appears to be a few very dark animals in there, so it seems like it is reproducing itself, but I'm not sure it would be co-dom as I had hoped.

All babies appear darker than normal, but some have some interesting traits. They have a black head (often some fading on top of the head). The eye stripes are normally olive green instead of the regular yellow or brown. They also have flames, similar to Yellow Bellies, but no orange in them (white instead). The bellies are interesting too. I hope to line breed these once the females I held back get up to size. I'll update once they are out and I'll try to post pictures next to a normal. Subtle differences, but I wonder what it would do in combos? And, the best part is - is there a super? So much work is involved to get those answers!