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Bluerosy
at Tue Dec 29 10:27:31 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bluerosy ]
I don't think so.......
Two different pigments......
Xanthin - Yellows
Erythrin - Reds
I used to think that as well. Then when i questioned Dr. Bechtel at the Daytona show 2 years in a row about this very same question regarding the Florida kings specifically. Dr. Bechtel said the Florida king neonates have red and then they turn orange and finally yellow as adults. So when does oranage become red or yellow? Basically these are all the same origins it is really just up to the hobbiest to call whatever he wants since both pigments yellow and red are missing. If you check Dr. Bechtels book he has pictures of anerys and axanthics that are pictured that could be opposite. thats because they have both pigments and both are missing.
Also early in th 80's Lloyd lemke had this same arugument with his axanthics. He actully called his axanthics ..Anerythristics, and he was very sure that is what they were supposed to be. Check his price list and you will see he called the first 'axanthics" Anerys. he mentioned something about his anerys having a Blue wax appearance. Then some years later some breeders on the east coast started calling the same line axanthics when Lloyd got cancer and finally passed away. So i guess postmortem (LL A.D.)they became axanthics.
anerys ..
anery eye
axanthic:
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RE: Anery vs. axanthic? - Bluerosy, Tue Dec 29 10:27:31 2009
