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RobHaneisen
at Mon Sep 5 08:44:24 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RobHaneisen ]
Dave:
Just to be clear. I produced two ghosts last year that were this nice but neither came from bloodlines that have been linked to "extremes". The father is a very clean anery het hypo from Dave Dopherty's line and the mother is a nice tri-color hypo het anery from Dunham lines.
Personally, I think the two super-nice ghosts I hatched last year were lucky. The first clutch this year from the same pairing produced one ghost that is nowhere near as nice (though still very clean, he or she has thicker bands and a little abberancy. However, I notice that the anery's in this clutch, and the hypos are very clean. One other thing I like about this pairing (even moreso than the color) is the size. These hatchlings are very large compared to some fo my hypos which were normal-sized.
There's alot we don't know about with hypos and other morphs in Hondurans, especially when you start crossing different lines. Heck, I hatched out a tri-color hypo this year - it is creamy white, not yellow - from a clutch that had all other hypos as really tangerine. Weird. I can only attribute this to the history of tr-color and tangerine hondurans and how the different breeder lines eventually infiltrated everybody's stock.
Shannon says his ghost is from pairing animals that come from the xtreme line, so I would say that puts him closer to producing an extreme ghost.
Ghosts are funny, though. i've seen some real dogs with lots of tipping and yeah, they are ghosts but also pretty scary. And then you have some that are pretty clean as hatchlings and get all mottled up by the time they are adults. I'll try to take a picture today of my female at 1.5 years to show you what I mean by very minor tipping creeping in. It's sunny outside so the light will hopefully be good enough to see the pinkish hue.
Here's a close-up pic of the first clutch from that pairing this year. The lone ghost is near the bottom with "H" pattern.
Rob
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RE: Ghost male from extreme clutch.Lets hope he turns out to be het for extreme. - RobHaneisen, Mon Sep 5 08:44:24 2005