I believe they are both issues, I think the lable "hyper" is way to vague and can describe many different traits, those animals from Kevin Walters litter would probably be best described as hypermelanistic as they were noticably darker than their littermates. i am not sure that even hypermelanistic would be fitting or possibly just call them melanistic.



The lable hyper-pigmented accurtely desribes IMO what I have seen in them, the homozygous hyper-pigmented ones are also very different than their litter mates. They are also darker but they have a ton of brilliant color as well so I feel that is a good description for them.



Gus's litters have created a lot of talk and have become very sought after, that is were I feel the lable "hyper" came into play, it was used to feed off an interest in the market and a sales pitch.



As for now we don't know if either bloodline is genetic and to what degree, I have a very strong feeling that we will see in a couple of years that one of them will prove out and live up to it's lable.



I am not suggesting that there is nothing going on geneticly different with the hypers, I hope there is I just think they should have a more specific lable.



this is all just opinion JB and I have no proof either way just my thoughts.



Joel

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