"Lesser x Platty: Lesser het. platty and het plattys "



I think Lesser X Platty would produce 25% chance blue eyed leucistic, 25% chance platy, 25% chance lesser, and 25% chance normal.



It's looking like Platy is a like the leucistic in that it's a combo of two mutant copies of the same gene. It seems that hidden is yet another mutation of the same gene as lesser/butter, mojave, phantom/mystic, Vin Russo, mocha, and special. Many combos of this allele complex are white like lesserphantom = karma but some like lesserhidden = platy and mojavespecial = crystal and mojavemystic = mystic potion are not all white. The difference is that hidden appears to be even harder (maybe impossible) to identify visually than say special but it has a big impact when combined with lesser. Also it looks like even homozygous hiddens look normal. Per this theory of no lesser could carry the extra hidden allele to make a platy because if it did it would already be a platy.

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