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mikebell
at Thu May 12 06:57:58 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by mikebell ]
Mike not to sound argumentative but how can we say that something is considered a different gene and then in the next sentence say but we don't know what it looks like. We must keep a scientific look at our hobby and understand that nothing can be proven until it can be duplicated. I will be one of the first to say the citrus pastels are super hot and they do things to other morphs that other lines wish they could but until a "citrus" is produced and then reproduced it cannot be considered it's own morph.
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Josh,
I'm just going by what Amir has told me, and the theory has been accepted by others. Ask GC their opinion on this. The reasoning behind this I believe, is that not all pastels produced from a citrus pastel are citrus pastels. The citrus gene itself could look no different than a normal, or so slightly different that it hasn't been noticed yet. The idea that there is two different genes at work has been around for several years. I have hatched citrus pastel g-stripes, citrus pastel het g-stripe and many g-stripes. One g-stripe is much lighter than all of the others. We THINK, this may be citrus isolated from pastel.
The pictures are of two regular pastel g-stripes and a citrus pastel g-stripe, all produced from the same pastel g-stripe male breed to het stripes that have no relation to citrus.


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