Nasicus,
You said this.....

"The real test if they are a true genetic axanthic is if they make a snow.

Can't wait to see how long it takes him to figure out how to do that since he doesn't understand genetics."

That is not the real test to see if Franks axanthic are genetic. He already did the real test by breeding them together and producing more axanthics. While it will take more breedings to see how it is being inherited, chances are it will be recessive based on the results thus far.

And making a snow by adding albino to the mix will not determin if an axanthic is an axanthic. My buddy Troy and I have talked about this topic extensively on the phone and touched on it again because of this very post last night. We both conclude that Just because one gene is recessive to the normal wild type gene, it does not mean it can not be dominant, recessive, co-dominant, or incompletely dominant to another gene. Past breedings with other species has proven that adding albino to axanthic does create a snow, but it is not the rule. You can have a double homozygous albino axanthic and the albino can technically be dominant over or recessive to the axanthic gene not resulting in a visual snow.

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