Awesome read. I do think there are several different things going on that fall under the industry term paradox. Would be interesting to know more about the parents of some of the different types to figure out what genetics are involved even if not actually causing the paradox appearance. For ones to fall under the chimera theory it would have to be a pairing that could produce the two different types of offspring to get merged into one animal. The first paradoxes I remember seeing were albino and at the time that was the only morph that had large numbers of clutches that could have both morphs and normals. But even then you would see some that looked like part albino and part normal and others that looked like albinos that had some darker than normal areas.
I'm wondering if this one I recently hatched could be something different than a chimera; maybe just birth defect or some sort of localized genetic anomaly. I wasn't aware of either parent having any type of axanthic gene and none of the siblings was axanthic. But I still have a little hope that whatever happened exposed that maybe I have the axanthic gene and this exposed that this male is a het with localized areas where genetic anomalies allowed the het axanthic to show through so I'm thinking of keeping him as a breeder. I was wanting to upgrade to a pied male anyway so as long as he doesn't turn out to be infertile suppose worth a try.
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