Most of your points have already been adressed but since you asked, I will answer this one:



"When I visited Ric Blair on occasion, he called his half "Hets for Black Gap Silver". Isn't Ric the co-discover, for crying out loud?"



Yes Ric and I collected it together but he did none of the breedings. I took it home and eventually collected a normal male from the same locality and did all of the breeding. All the ones that Ric has had have came from me splitting my clutches with him. The group of hets he recently sold were produced by me. To my knowledge he has never bred any of them.



BTW you didn't answer my question, if someone had a lone female Silver Blonde and wanted to produce Silver Normals, would you reccommend they buy a male "Mercury", or a male Silver Normal?

I will admit that there is a good chance mine will prove to be the same strain of Axanthic as the Silvers but I am not going to sell them as that until it gets proven. I also am not going to ever attatch a locality name to something that will not likely be kept pure locality. The fact is right now they have met all the criteria for naming and they have met none of the criteria for synonomising them with Silvers.

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