First off, thank you for taking time to explain things better when for some reason my brain just wasn't being able to sort things out very well...much appreciated.

Secondly, sorry to hear about you losing one of the starter animals for this project.


Now for something that I wonder if any of you have thought through this about...

I know many of you understand genetics as well I do (or better) and the correct names for missing colors in animals giving us amels, anerys, axanthics along with the hypo and hyper versions (for starters anyways). These are names that when breeders make a new morph discovery grab the one they want so to speak, or what may at first appear correct, although I dont' doubt that some, especially between anery and axanthic, people may have chosen just out of preference of one word over the other, labeling a morph as if the two terms are interchangable because an anery and axanthic animal resemble each other, when in reality they are different. I'm not faulting anyone for naming xxx morph here, it's not like breeders have the ability to look into an animals dna and see it's genetic blueprint and then name it from that, just making an observation that leads me to my main "what if" point here. I'm basing this whole thought process on just visual guessing also too. WHAT IF...what you have is actually an anerythristic (lacking red) animal, which results in why you are able to have produced yellow animals...and WHAT IF what many of us have as Sharp line anerys if we could see their genetic blueprint are actually axanthic (lacking yellow) instead? If this theory (which may be way outside the box, or someone may show me a flaw in my thinking that I'm overlooking)...if this theory has anything to it, then crossing the two animals may actually give us the more black and white adult animals. I understand your lack of excitement over some of the current lines of anery and how they color up, and I am absolutely not knocking your new line when I say this, I hope you understand that, but even with your line we still don't have a visual adult anery/axanthic appearing animal. I'm not saying they aren't beautiful, they are, but I think all of us (I know I would), would love to see a black and white adult animal that was at least somewhere close to what our black and white babies are.

Thoughts?

Charlie

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