Quote Originally Posted by WingedWolfPsion View Post
I also think that the 'hidden gene' animals really should be re-named. They need to have their own separate names to avoid confusion, and hey...isn't naming a new morph kind of fun?

The HG Woma deserves its own name. So does the HG citrus. If there is not really another gene in hiding, then 'Hidden Gene' is simply incorrect.
I agree 100%!! ... Maybe if we all come up with a really cool name, NERD and everyone else will start using it ...

I've been very curious about the womas myself. Did NERD produce the pearl from HG womas, or from womas? What happens when you cross a HG woma with a woma?

I know that if no one knows, one of these days I am going to have to be brave enough to breed my womas together, and confirm the Pearl issues...simply because of all the confusion with the HG Womas. I just don't want to have to watch a gorgeous hatchling die of internal problems. It would be a shame if all this time we've been avoiding Woma X Woma due to the fact that HG Woma X HG Woma is lethal, though.

Does anyone out there have a solid answer to this question?
I don't have any solid answer either, though I'd love to know. My thought has been that it's the homozygous "HG woma" that is lethal, because that mutation seems to mesh so well with the BEL complex and the pearl kinda sorta looks like a homozygous BEL (not that I'm suggesting that the "HG woma" is an allele on that same locus, just that they seem somehow ... Related?) AND that the HG woma does such crazy stuff, but the regular woma seems to be a more run-of-the-mill straight-up pattern mutation.

At the same time, I wonder if there is no visual homozygous "regular" woma -- that it's a simple dominant mutation, like pinstripe might be, and that the "super" form looks just like the heterozygous. That thought isn't really based on much, though, other than the idea that I bet NERD has already tried it (especially back when it was thought that both "womas" were the same), and if it made something wicked cool we probably woulda seen it by now.