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!


I think what you may have had was a Lemke that was outcrossed to another line to create a lighter axanthic. I have never seen a light axanthic when I was at Lloyds and I saw a lot of the original stock.

The original Axanthics from Lloyd Lemke all were dark as adults. They came out nice and blue as babies (he referred to them as looking like "blue wax" on his price list. But these blue babies soon muddied up with growth. The opposite is true of the the pure line New Englands which the babies were not as pretty as the Lemkes but turned into nice light colored beats..almost resembling a ghost.

The New England line is a line trait which is more preserved through the years . Unless someone outcorssed them and still called the New Englands, but then they would not be new englands anymore!

As soon as you outcross a NE axanthic to another line it is no longer considered a NE axanthic. So all the prodgeny have to trace back to the original "old canal" wildcaught stock found by it founders. You could say the same thing when referring to a Lemke line.

Since Lloyd had fertility issues with his original stock (and people did not treat them the same as the NE axanthic (by keeping the line pure) they outcrossed them early on and probably still called them "Lemke axanthics". My guess is that is what you had and why you had a light "Lemke" axantics. But it would not technically be correct calling it a Lemke axanthicjust as if you called a New England axanthic that was outcrossed still a New England.

Bottom line to this discussion is phenotypes have an effect on mutations such as the hypos, anerys , PB ect. which means we have variety or color AND PATTERNS within those recessive traits.



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