Thanks. So do you think Mercury is a good name?



Chris Flowers and I have both reproduced this morph, myself by breeding het son to original homo mother and Chris by breeding het to het, brother and sister. I have also produced several clutches of hets by breeding the original homo mother to a wild caught normal male. All results so far have been consistent with a simple recessive mode of inheritance and I feel it is safe to say that it's a simple recessive trait.



I was first thinking Black Gap Silvers but tossed that out because most people will not be able to or not want to keep them pure locality.



I also don't think it would be appropriate to give them any of the other names that are in use like Silver, Silver Color Normal Pattern, Platinum, Axanthic, etc. because mine have not been test bred against those for compatability.



The way I see it the definition of a Mercury phase would be: A simple recessive form of Axanthism originating from a single wild caught specimen originally collected at Black Gap.



I do think it is possible that mine could prove to be compatible with the generic Silvers/Axanthics, just as Gregg Feaster's turned out to be but for now that's not known. I also don't know of anybody who is planning to test breed them so it could be several years before it's known one way or the other. In the meantime, there are other people besides myself who will be producing these so they need a name to prevent confusion. Also, there's nothing wrong with me taking a credit for developing this strain right?

Any thoughts?

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