New Pickup. Pied or Leopard Pied?

The person who kept him was a student at Texas A&M. It was a donation to him as his field of study was mainly targeted at genetics and mutations with in them(such as radiation, random mutations ETC). The previous owner knew he had something strange, but didnt know what caused it or even what "IT" is.

So after years of keeping the animal(was a herp head LOL) it was coming close to time for his thesis. He decided to use the animal he had been keeping for an experiment. He basicly took a sample scale from two areas of the animal, one from each patterned area. After initial testing they showed different genetic structure. So he took a minimally invasive sample.of flesh from under each area, these showed to be nearly identical with minimal differences. His proffesor agreed he had a "true chimaira". Sadly his works were shrugged off due to some technical error he made while doing his experiments, so were never deemed worthy of being printed in any scientific publication. They all claimed the risk was too high of damaging their own credibility. According to his proffesor though, the error that occured(not sure what it was) would NOT have effected the end results of the genetic testing.

This experiment was later verified when the animal was bred. The animal was a fire/pastel. When bred to two fire females one year it produced lucies. The following year when bred to a pair of pastel females a friend had, it produced supers. Originaly the animal was thought to have just been a "unique fire" with odd coloration in patches and mild pattern changes. So in my opinion, this was proof positive this animal was a chimaira. Though much of the evidence was no admissible to any science publications. Sadly the animal has since passed, and my friend has moved on with his career. Is a shame, at one point one of his goals was to geneticly map all morphs. So basicly you could take your group of possible hets, have them tested and find out for sure which were and which werent. Sadly seems he has lost his passion.