Quote Originally Posted by muddoc View Post
Justin,
First of all I woould like to congratulate you on that beautiful addition to your collection. Don't listen to all those other people, I would throw that in with some Clown. Now, I would like to ask you about the above statement. What makes you believe that it is recessive. If I understand the breedings correctly, VPI broought in the original animals from Africa, and bred them together, but have never done any other breedings. If that is the case, they could still be co-dominant (and be the Homozygous form). Now I know the odds of bringing in 2 or more animals from the wild that have a similar appearance, and have them all be Homozygous Co-dominant animals, is a long shot. However, with little breeding info on the project, I was wondering if Dave or Tracy gave you any other info that may lead you to believe that they are Recessive.

What I want to see, and I asked Tracy if they tried or not, is if they are compatible with any of the other established Axanthic lines.

Congrats Again,
Thanks! I actually had not seriously considered the clown breeding yet... that would definitely be awesome. That's what I love about this animal, nearly every combo seems like it would be awesome. Others I can hardly imagine... what would the pastel or spider combo look like?

You correctly understand the breedings up to this point. It has been visual x visual only. In the two clutches there were no normals or supers.

It is definitely possible the original imported animals were already supers and it is a codominate trait. That would definitely be an interesting twist. I think Tracy and I are both leaning toward recessive simply because all other axanthic lines have been recessive. On the other hand, these do not look like any other axanthics and in a way its apples and oranges.

There is no breedings to help prove compatibility with existing axanthic lines, but because most of them are incompatible even though they look nearly identical as babies, I would be shocked if this one was compatible while appearing to be a completely different mutation. Time will tell!

Thanks for your input Tim!

Justin