Over three months ago, I posted a current pic of the father of this litter, as well as his baby pic post shed. Here they are again for comparison with the pic posted above of where his "intermediate" form is present in this litter. I'm hoping this may be the future of anerys to come. In looking at a picture of Mike Lockwood's ghost after two years, I see a LOT of yellow present. Maybe the high yellow animal that Tim Frazier had, which my line originated from, may very well have been the first ghost Brazilian, whatever the source? If nobody had ever seen one before as an adult, how would it have recognized as such at the time? Tim told me he had never seen anything like that animal before....possibly for good reason.

I now have anerys present in my collection, but no hypos, so that is an argument against this theory. But what if Tim's animal was a combination of anery coupled with a "pastel" gene or?

There's obviously something genetic going on here and I'm the first to admit, I'm not exactly what it is. It could be as simple as the original pair of animal's I obtained from Tim Frazier are het anery. If they are, he has no knowledge of it. It still doesn't explain what the pastel looking "intermediate" form is. The father of this latest litter was the one and only animal like this produced in the original litter. There were several more produced in the second litter of the same pairing. Now, with this litter, that first pastel looking male put back with his mom produced three anerys and several babies that look exactly like him. Are these unusual looking animals just normal variations within a litter? I honestly don't think so.

So where do I go from here to prove out the genetics? I'd like to take the quickest and most scientific approach possible. I could introduce the hypo gene to produce ghosts down the road, but this may only complicate things by introducing another gene into the mix. Any opinions and ideas on what approach you would take to investigate and prove out the genetics here are greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

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