I hatched two of these last week from hets produced from the wild-caught anery male i got from ric blair. these "anerythristics" retain even more pink than anery hondurans. I've long argued those (the hondurans) are actually hypoerythristic, as Louis Porras first observed, but anerythristic has stuck with the hondos. I'd say the same is true with the pyros: they're really hypoerythristics. Time'll tell what term sticks.
I mismanaged the male this year, btw (waited too long to put him with females) but next year i'll know better and should do better! I got only one het this year, now happily in jeff teel's hands--he's posted pix of it here--plus three babies from a het x het pair--the two in this pic plus a second anery sib.
As was the case with the hondos, a new morph (in this case, the anery) creates exciting new opportunities for combining with the existing applegate, hypo (two types?) and albino morphs: an "applegate special" version of this animal (without black except on the head); a snow version--like the albinos, cream and white but with a soft pink instead of red; and a ghost version that's a little harder to predict--brown instead of black rings, like a hypo, but pink instead of red? Or will the reduction of red result in gray rings instead of brown? That'll depend on a couple of things, including whether the red that shows in hypos' dark rings is the result of melanin or erythrin, and then if the latter, on whether or not the anery morph affects red in those dark rings too, or only in the red rings. Hope that makes sense. More things to learn by doing...
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albino tricolors
