Quote Originally Posted by MarkS View Post
There are several different Axanthic lines and many of them are NOT compatible with each other so breeding it to any old axanthic would not necessarily give you axanthic offspring unless you were lucky enough to hit on the right line.

In addition to that, there is a condition that has been posted a number of times before where a normal appearing adult will have an unusual shed and lose all of it's yellow pigment, it's not really understood how this happens but one theory I've seen is that it could be a reaction to some kind of bacterial infection, since the animals in question also had an unusually messy/odd looking poop before they shed. In cases like this it is obviously not genetic and can not be passed on to any offspring.

Another thing that I remember from several years ago was Marc Mandic from Marcus Jayne reptiles produced an axanthic pied from breeding together a couple of pied gene carriers and being surprised that some of them came out axanthic, so it's not unheard of to produce morphs out of the blue. Looks like you've got a mystery on your hands, good luck in trying to figure it out.
Thanks for the good info. I was not sure if there were different uncompatable lines of axanthic or not but I was wandering if that may be the case. I have seen pics of balls lossing there yellow like you mentioned. Does anyone know how many lines of uncompatable axanthic genes there are? And who has them?