Help identify ball morph. Pics in gallery

[bluevenom]

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?

[MarkS]

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?

I know that the original three lines were not compatible with each other. They are the VPI line, the Snakekeeper line and the Jolliff line. There is a NERD line that I believe is compatible with the VPI line and there is the Marcus Jayne line (that I mentioned before) but I think it's pretty new so I don't know if anyone has tried to cross it with another line yet or not. There are probably others but those are the ones I know about.

[heathers*bps]

I have a female that I SWEAR is axanthic. BUT since there are a few axanthic lines that are not compatible, it would be a long and expensive journey to prove her out.

If that is something that you are willing to do, good luck in all your endeavors, and let us know how it works out

[bluevenom]

I have a female that I SWEAR is axanthic. BUT since there are a few axanthic lines that are not compatible, it would be a long and expensive journey to prove her out.

If that is something that you are willing to do, good luck in all your endeavors, and let us know how it works out

Yeah I would prabably be better off breeding him to a pied female, raise a daughter then breed him back to her.