Rich Z was the first to hatch this morph, I really don't have much data on if any of his holdbacks have yellow pigment or not.

Keep in mind only one amel "Z" exists. Just because this one animal so far has no yellow pigment does not mean that this is a trait of morph "Z". Perhaps with more outcrossing the yellow will creep in. None of the Z's in my collection have developed yellow pigment, however, most of the genotypically "normal" offspring from this project aslo lack yellow. In fact only one of my "normal" animals from this line has yellow. So the fact that this little amel lacks it could just be a line bred factor and not a factor of the new gene.

Charcoals were once believed to lack yellow pigment, but it turned out it was just a characteristic of the founding animals. Once outcrossed into other lines the yellow started to creep in.

I'm not so sure "Super Charcoal" would be a great name for morph that causes most of it's homozygous animals to end up with Burgundy saddles. It's just too early to jump on the naming boat, we need a bigger pool of adult Z's to try and find something that fits to the majority of them. If we try and descriptively name them now, the look make change when outcrossed and we will be stuck with a fairly inacurate label. Another good option would be to name them with a non-descriptive name. Only time will tell what we will come up with and what the market will accept.

Here is a pic of the only animal from the line with yellow. She is possible het for Z and those eggs will give her away in about 7 weeks. Wouldn't it be a whole different can of worms if the only animal with yellow proved to be the only animal that is not het? Fun stuff!

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Carol Huddleston

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