Actually Dr bechtel came a spent time at my table 2 years in a row. The first time i asked these questions I thought he was trying to over simplify. The follwing year he spent a lot more time and we talked for about 30 minutes. I asked him to explain the anwers i got last year.



Check his book. He even lists tricolors as axanthics.



IMO and for the hobby sake. it would be better to call an axanthic based on the gene rather than the color of the original animal. If you bred a axanthic Florida to a red ratsnake and then bred it back again to create more red phenotypes. It would still be better to call the trait axanthic since that is where the genes came from. That has been my arguemnet from the beginning.



Oh and I spent many years with Sonny and Lloyd. i worked during the summer months cleaning and maintaining their collection. So i personally handled everything he had and was working on. That Black and white cal king is not axanthic. I never recalled him calling them that. The whole axanthic or anery thing sound more like Hubbs (LOL!) Back then it was a race to see who could breed out the yellow on Cal kings. FR could (if he was still here) tell a lot more about that as well. So i guess he left ya'll to play with yourselves.
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