Axanthics

This is a picture of my VPI axanthic male, Ghost. He's around a year old.
Don't let Lucy distract you too much, I know she's pretty but Ghost is still holding his colors pretty strongly! :D
http://i54.tinypic.com/t5k65h.jpg

Wow, Ghost is gorgeous! and so is his girl friend. :gj: That is a good picture because she's in there for comparison.

Thanks, unfortunately I didn't have a normal to put next to him but he's pretty silver. :)

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Originally Posted by J.Vandegrift

Why would you be disappointed if it popped up accidentally? I can understand not being a fan of the morph but I don't see how you could actually be disappointed if it happened.

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Compare adult spiders with adult spider axanthics.

To my eyes, the spider axanthics don't look as nice as the spiders, so even though it less "complicated", I like the look of a plain old spider better.

The same goes for every single adult axanthic ball python I've ever seen, even combo morphs. Once they break the 2 year old mark, if you compare an axanthic *whatever* to a non-axanthic *whatever*, every single *whatever* looks better to me than its axanthic cousin.

So yeah, to my eyes axanthics come close to being ugly, and are a negative trait to have. If it showed up accidentally in my breeding collection, I'd be unhappy, and wish that any animals that showed it, didn't.

Different strokes for different blokes! I think as long as the axanthic is high quality, OR combined with a pastel, they look very beautiful and silver even with age. However, I do agree that some brown out, making them look like normals, but imo, normals aren't ugly. I also really like colorful morphs, as you can probably tell by my pastel lesser ball python, Lucy.
In all honestly, when me and my snakes are older I'm hoping to produce some axanthic emperor pins because I think they would look awesome. However, I'd also like to get into more colorful morphs once I'm done producing some axanthic combos.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 'nuff said. :)
Also, if anyone wanted an axanthic spider compared to a spider...
http://www.exoticsbynature.com/sale/09bpcal/1.jpg
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...1&d=1277219891

There was a really nice axanthic spider at the Repticon show in Orlando last weekend. It probably was around the 1kg mark, and had a very nice grey colour with no signs of browning. Of all of the cool animals at the show, that one really stuck out to me. I wish I would have had a camera on me so I could have got a photo of it.

Those where nice axanthic spiders. There were two! One actually sold.:)