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DMong
at Wed Sep 21 11:54:08 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]
You're welcome Amy,.....
Remember though, this is generally speaking and there are many that are virtually impossible to tell what they would normally be if they had normal pigment. There are simply too many variables and exceptions. There are plenty of tangerine's that have very THIN bands too, and some tricolors that have pretty darn wide inner light rings..LOL!
I was going to post a bunch more pics, but the photobucket won't display the drop-down menu for some stupid reason.
Anyway, yes, it is indeed possible to produce tangerines and bicolored tangerine offspring from two tricolored parents, but there has to be some strong tangerine influence in the recent parental lineage for this to be more probable.
The first anerythristic that originally started all of today's morphs from a wild import specimen back in 1991 was imported by Dave Doherty, and all of the animals produced from it soon afterwards were all originally tricolors of red, yellow and black, just as the original amels also were in 1994(with the exception of the mutated white rings of course). But since then there have been many countless thousands of breedings with tangerine forms involved, which is where we are today.
There was one other anery Hondo that was known prior to that owned by an old-time herper named Ernie Wagner, but it was unfortunately eaten by another one when it was temporarily placed in another Honduran's enclosure to do some cleaning, so it's genes never got a chance to be perpetuated in the hobby.
Just keep in mind, you won't always know with any certainty at all what MANY ghosts and anery's would normally be, but seeing other clutch siblings, and parents and grandparents can give you a much better idea.
Best of luck with your Hondo endeavors!..
~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing" 
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RE: ? about anery and ghost hondos - DMong, Wed Sep 21 11:54:08 2011