understand What the Anery gene does... it takes away red/orange so the result u end up w/ is a black and white animal... if the animal comes from a high yellow lineage the anery will develop yellow pigments as it matures...

as far as degrees of a mutation... not really... floridana are highly variable as a whole, when you add genes to natural variations you end up with a spectrum of morphs. you will see more variation in a morph like "hypo" because the colored pigments are not eliminated by this gene... what you end up with what various lines of floridana look like if you INCREASED the colored pigments that are present within that line... not a reduction in black pigment as the term "hypo" suggest... what is a genetic hypomelanistic is the "peanutbutter" mutation... it reduces the color black to lavender/brown... the "PB" mutation has potential to be as variable as the "hypo" mutation because it does not tamper with the colored pigments within a particular line it only reduces black.

Axanthics even, vary quite a bit depending on the lineage, i have a dirty dark axanthic female and then i have a NE axan male that looks almost ghost... but then there are lemke line axanthics I've produced that grow up to look better than my NE axanthics!


here is a clutch of "hypos" i produced from two "flame" lines; notice how much BLACK is visible:

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