Jimmy, I agree with you that it is confusing, but the one thing you must consider is that to get an anery bloodred, you need just that...an anery and a bloodred.

While you can seemingly seperate the diffusion from the red color of the bloodreds, you cannot separate out the red from the diffusion. In other words, you can't get just the severe red of the bloodred without the diffusion.

There are still things about the bloodred that are not completely understood. There was talk that the original old-style bloodred was selectively bred to get that color, but the new 'old-style' bloodred line that I discovered being bred has not been selected for, unless you call the guy catching the snakes to be 'selection.' As my babies grow up I plan to do some experimenting to see just how the diffused pattern holds up in crosses, but the red color does not. Not sure if I'll ever figure it out, but it will be fun trying.

Leslie

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