If you look back into old breeding records blacks were produced at about the same rates as the yellows and oranges were.



They were hard to find to say the least. I know from when Lloyd was alive, he did not have a specific group of animals that produced even a high incidence of black animals. They were at best random.



A few people liked them, but most folks liked the leonis phases of the different color morphs. So they line and color bred for those. Over the years the incidence of the blacks slowly, but predictably was seen less and less.



But with that said, the black gene morph is still there in many animals but again we tend as hobbyist not to breed for it. Pairing yellow to yellow, orange to yellow, less and less MSP etc.



While it could definitely happen that a pure black to black line producing black only, it would sure be a long shot.



After all there is a reason that these animals are called Variable Kings. In none of the other color morphs of thayeri are we able to control the production of specific color or pattern morphs.



At least that is my experience in Thayeri, I bet you get something other than all blacks out of your pairings. Which is not a bad thing from where I come from. It will simply be in keeping with as what the name Variable King implies!






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