Maybe I worded it wrong. What I was referring to is how the Salmon hypo works when it is used to make Ghosts, for instance. The markings become smaller, extreme and distorted in some animals (which I think is waaay cool!). I have heard that the Orangetail hypo does not do it, either, at all - or to that extent.

Another analogy might be: Jeremy Stone bred his male Motley to a Salmon-hypo Motley female and the resulting hypo offspring had these really whacky patterns....very impressionistic and abstract . I don't know if they were all like this. The ones I saw, were. Maybe Jeremy will chime in here, if he's around Chris Nicholas' beautiful hypo Motley female is from an Orangetail-hypo and her pattern remained very symetrical and "Motleyish".

That's what I was wondering about. I think Kevin said his babies were from orangetail-hypo lineage. They had wide traditional markings. You can see on my Ghost x Hogs, how the patterns are distorted and minimalized on some of the babies. I have thought that might be from the Salmon-hypo influence.

But then.......I may be totally wrong.....
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