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Ok, am I the only one that is confused as to how these pretty white babies are generated?
Ralph crossed his daddy platty to two of the daughters and got some; Living Art got one crossing fire to fire, and MKR got some from crossing Mojave and Lesser platinums.

Is it just genetic chance or is there a particular thing going on with these specific crosses that is resulting in the "white gene"?

Just trying to understand!

Hope we see some at Daytona!!
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...got balls?

graycat

Letting me live here:
2.2 normals
0.1 pie ball
1.0 hetpied
0.1 Suriname
? Common snapping turtle
? Alligator snapping turtle
1 Guinea pig
2 gold fish (turtle survivors)
3 pet rats and
3 cats
Oh yeah, and 3 children!

You know what everybody else knows...and that amounts to not a whole lot. We will not know until somebody breeds the Lucy's back to a normal...and then we may not know until somebody breeds those babies back to each other.
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Michael Enriquez

It appears that a number of different appearances are visual hets for co-dominant leucistic. As pointed out more information on breeding results of actual leucistics will be needed to really prove this for many people. I think there have been at least 4 breedings of leucistic so far but the results of these breedings haven't been released to the public so hopefully next year we'll find out as different breeders start producing clutches from leucistics.

Why the various het leucistics look different I don't have a really good feel for. Here is the list of potential visible het leucistics as I see it:

Lesser (I include platy as a lesser something else)
Mojave
Phantom
Fireball
High yellow (Vin Ruso line – maybe there is a different name now)
Yellow belly
maybe even butter

Some would argue that the Ivory (rumored to be the super yellow belly) isn't a leucistic and it may well be an incompatible line but to me there seems to be a continuum of degrees of yellow on the leucistics produced so far so maybe Ivory is just the extreme end. Also as far as I know there haven't been tests yet to see if the blue eyed and black eyed lines are compatible. It might be that they are compatible with the lighter eye color coming from the lighter pigmented lines of hets or maybe they are different incompatible lines.