Quote Originally Posted by BigJay View Post
Fire is a leucistic gene, it is how you make a BLACK eyed luecistic, there is BLUE eyed luecistic group, and the BLACK eyed luecistic group. NO they are not "compatible" between the 2 groups. You can have a a pair of Fire Mojaves / Fire Lessers and can make both blue and black eyed luecistic. As far as the original post, I believe luecistic is stronger than any other gene set and will mask nearly any other genetics at play
The super fire may be called the black eyed leucistic by many in this hobby, but by definition, it is not genetically a leucistic gene from all evidence I've seen. We could only say for sure if we had a normal, a fire and a super fire all genetically mapped. But they have significantly too much color and patterning typically to be a true leucistic gene. To be Leucistic by definition it must be non-melanoid, non-albino and non-axanthic. The presence of coloration along the back in many if not the majority of super fires therefore means it's technically a piebald type gene, where sections of coloration are completely stripped, and the sections remaining have the fire coloration. And no, I'm not suggesting fire is a compatible gene with the morph we know as Piebald or pied, it is clearly on a separate allele, but they both can create a genetic piebald effect in homozygous form.