Del,



Hopefully you didn't get the sense that I was down playing the animals at all. In my opinion manmade morphs and wild caught lineage both have a place in the hobby. But the patternless gene is a pet peeve of mine and we have worked over the years with locale specific animals ( collected over several years in a 1/2 mile radius of each other ) and have hatched probally 150 or so of the offspring to those 10 animals. So I found it very interesting to see what your results had been. So far we have found the patternless trait to be a co-dominate trait ( in the wild caught line from around Ocala ) that displays itself exactly as you expect. As far as the manmades, so far with the pinks and patternless combined it has acted exactly the same way for us.



As far as leucistic is concerned, my definition of leucistic is a little harsher than most folks. To me if they do not have black eyes and a patternless solid white body, I do not call them leucistic. Additionally when bred together they must produce nothing but the same colored animals. ( exactly like the leu. Texas Rat ) So far I have till yet to find one that is like that in the southerns. Without outside intervention that is.



My thoughts anyway, which doesn't make it rright just my approach. Like you said so many morphs, so little time etc etc. LOL.





John Cherry

Cherryville Farms

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