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RDR’s Birthing Records report a lot of pairings of the hidden gene hets (normal looking offspring of Platy) early on and he didn't report any visibly different homozygous hiddens. He even did platy X platy last year and produced a normal looking baby that should be a known homozygous hidden by the allele theory. If so, hidden apparently stays hidden even when homozygous.

I believe the platy is heterozygous for the white snake gene with one copy lesser mutant and the other hidden mutant (no normal copies so like a dark cross line leucistic in that sense).

With the hidden being hidden it's hard to say if they are 1%, 0.1%, or 0.01% of the general population but as more lessers are bred I suppose it's not surprising some of these hidden females are being found. Of course I also wander what Ralph has been doing with all his possible het hidden's over the years. Maybe some of those will start showing up through chance pairings with their lesser cousins.

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Originally Posted by Beardedragon

I think I like this line of Platinum better than ralphs:oops: They are more " pink" Maybe its just the pictures

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I'm thinking this as well... they really do appear to have a more "redish/pinkish" tint to them... as an ex-coworker use to say all the time: "MUST BE NICE!" lol! Congrats to the folks that hit on that one :)

Regards,
Bristen.

I think the pinkish is because they are hatchlings. Whiter areas appear pink on hatchlings. From what I understand the only way to make a platy is to take a normal looking baby from a platy breeding and breed it to a lesser. The normal looking ones carry some hidden gene, so obviuosly there are some people with normals that happen to carry that hidden gene and they happen to breed them to a lesser, my question is will a mojave mixed with the hidden gene normal produce anything like a platy? I assume a butter will since they are virtually the same morph(different line) IMO. I would think Ralph has tried this but maybe not?

"Butter Daddies" have been produced by Ralph... nobody has done the Mojave x hidden gene yet because as of yet, only Ralph had the hidden gene and he doesn't own Mojaves I believe... I used to think a Mojave x hidden gene was a Crystal, but as someone (I forget who?) correctly pointed out when I mentioned it, the "specials" required to make a Crystal are different from normals.. the Platty hidden gene animals are apparently perfectly normal...

sooo.. Mojave Daddies in the near future? Having the hidden gene in a few extra hands may produce some interesting stuff very soon!

Regards,
Bristen.