I agree that anery is apropriate at least until more is known but I do hope that everyone who buys one realizes before they buy it that the adult colors are not black/gray/white.



The thing that puzzles me about the anery color change is that from what I've seen personally and looked up the browns are not a color that 'comes in' in adulthood. With the possible exception of the saddles it seems like in normals the brown stays roughly the same color in adults as it was in babies. The main difference seems to be an increase in orange or red pigment as the animal grows.



I know that this holds to a degree with peoples pro-"anery" arguement that the anery's just never get that developement of red pigment. This makes sense to me except for the fact that the anery babies are not brown that never colors up. Instead they go from silver/gray and black with, at least some of the time, tan/brown tints to a all brown tones adult.



Namely I guess what puzzles me is where the "black" melanin goes and why the "brown" melanin phases in. I am not questioning the melanin being brown thing, I just don't know whether the black versus brown is being caused by concentration, variety(if there are multi types of melanin), or other biological factors. I am a very very far cry from expert or even proficient in these biological processes and am just inquiring about what I do not understand and find surprising.



Does anyone have a hypothesis as to why the anery babies are not brown as well? Or if there might be a way to cause/have that baby "black" expression of melanin be expressed in adults?



Sean.

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