New male!

Bought this little guy from my local pet store. He is about 3-4 months old.

I know he is dumbo but what color is he? He looks almost steely blueish silver in person!

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I love a dumbo! :D

He appears to be "American Blue". There is perhaps a different name for it, but that's what I've always heard it called. The darker, more common blue is referred to as "Russian Blue". I haven't seen an American Blue in a long time! He's adorable. :D!

Are Russian blue and American blue compatible or no?
I have a blue hooded female who must be the Russian blue

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When you produce Dumbo Rex babies, I will have to grab a pair of females from ya. Can't resist dumbos!


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Looks like a Russian Silver to me. :) I had a Female Dumbo that looked EXACTLY like your guy. She was the sweetest thing.

Hmm, that hooded girl looks like a mink/agouti, as she has a ticked coat. Agouti is compatable with everything, it just has a variation of similar hue hairs mixed together. A plain agouti is what the coat of wild rats look like.

Russian silver? Is that referring to the same "silver" in silver fawn? Sorry I'm still very new to rats!

Yes the blue hooded female does have several different shades of blue/grey. So she could be agouti?


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Russian Silver I believe is where you have a really light colored gray silvery looking rat with a where the base of the rat's hair is white and the tips are silvery.

Look on this site for info. :) http://www.afrma.org/rmindex.htm

Here for genetics http://www.afrma.org/rmindex.htm#breedcolor

http://www.camarattery.com/colorsmarkings.htm
http://www.topirats.com/ratcolorsmarkings.htm


Here are a couple of ratteries that shows the different colors. Russian Silver and American Blue are on there. I've never heard of Russian Silver - might be one of the more rare or less worked with colors. I still say he's an American Blue. I have no clue about genetics, though. I never got into rats enough to learn, unfortunately.

Just got this female from the same place!

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I believe she is what you call variegrated? She is dumbo as well!!!


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Aw he is so cute! I had a dumbo rat named Denis who I rescued (he was 3 then) and was the love of my life for 3 more years... when i had to get him put down my vet said he was the oldest rat she had ever seen. He was such a sweety.

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Looks American Blue to me on my computer screen at least. Most of my rats are blues.
American and Russian blues are not compatible.

I agree that the hooded looks agouti-ish.

And the last female is variegrated.

Thanks guys for your input! Those links were very helpful too!


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No problem! Good luck in your breeding endeavour, I'd love to breed Rats but they are illegal to keep here unless you have a permit. :(

I have a female that looks just like him. This is the most recent picture I have of her currently. I call her an American Blue as well, Russian blue is much darker.

http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...umbo_eared.jpg

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I have a female that looks just like him. This is the most recent picture I have of her currently. I call her an American Blue as well, Russian blue is much darker.

http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file...umbo_eared.jpg

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She looks like a silver

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How come any non albino rats i find adorable but the albino ones give me the freakin creeps lol? Anyways i have no idea what that is but its cute! The female you got is nice too!

The blue rat looks like an American blue to me, we've produced many hundreds of them.

This is a blue agouti...
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/100_1533.jpg

American blue...
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT9115.jpg

He's cute as a button!

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