when we first got her, I originally agreed with you and thought she might just be an exceptionally faded lavender, mainly because even as recently as last year, there was still only a handful of adult lavenders out there, and who was to say there were not some lavs out there that just happened to look like her...as of last year there were maybe less than a dozen adult females in the world??? heck, some "big breeders" even told me that only the females turn dark purlpe and the males do not get dark...well....we now have three adult males that disproove that

now that there are lot more adult animals from '05, '06 and '07 grown up...she really stands out as particularly unique...i have never seen or heard of another lav ANYWHERE NEAR as hypo/faded as Gweneviere is...if you ask me, the brightness of the neon-yellows is the trademark of the morph...the degree and depth of purple may differ specimen to specimen, but every one i've seen has that smokin bright neon regardless...from babies to the less purple adults....i would really be interested in seeing another lav of ANY size that doesnt exhibit that trademark bright neon that every single other lav i have seen in pictures or person has? Also, if she was just a superfaded lav and nothing more, how come her homozygous lav babies, that recieved 50% of their homozygous lavender phenotype from her are NOT FADED IN THE SLIGHTEST, and all but indistinguishable from other lav hatchlings from other clutches?

if you bred an extreme super faded albino to a super high contrast regular albino...normally you would expect some of the babies would be at least somewhat faded...sometimes you have a few more faded babies than others, but in the case with the 8 lavender hatchlings we hatched so far this year, NONE of them looked faded at all in the slightest degree...and gweneviere's babies were indistinguishable from lav babies from another clutch....

since it appears her phenotype has not shown up in the 12 babies that have hatched so far out of her, it is probably not a codom/dom morph...

for the above reasons i am more in the camp that feels she is probably a double homo...but if anyone out there could show us some pics a similar animal that would help clear things up in the mean time while we wait to breed her line back to itself...

does anyone out there have any pics of a lavender at ANY age that is ANYWHERE near as hypo-emerald as she is? even slightly faded at all?

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