Quote Originally Posted by mcavana View Post
Having sold a ASF's to a few members of BP.net, many of you have seen what my different lines of asf's look like. All the ones I have ever produced can easily be broken into 3 main groups (sorry don't know the official names)

1) caped - both albino and non albino... all white with small patch of color on back shoulder blades

2) Gremlin - both albino and non albino.... body all one color with a stripe on the head.

3) normal - both albino and non albino... mostly colored back with all or mostly white head

Well, I have crossed all of my lines through several generations. I just noticed something in my last batch that is really throwing me for a loop. One trio produced for me the first ever (for me) in one litter 3 different solid colored asf's!!!! the entire body from head to toe one color. They are still nursing, so pics will come as soon as eyes open. they include:

1.) Very light brown (don't think albino)
2.) very dark grey almost black
3.) ALL WHITE!!! (Don't think albino)

Promise pics will come as soon as their eyes are all the way open. I have seen pics before of solid ASF's... but what colours of solid are there? does anyone have a super light brown one? Or an all white????


Mike, the white spotting is much like a co-dominant effect.

The head spot (your gremlin) is the heterozygous form of white spotting.

The white head and white butt ( or Pieds, also what you call Caped and Normal) are just two varying degrees of extreme of the homozygous form of white spotting.

The self (all one color) are the rats that do not have the gene for white spotting.



Breeding two head spotted rats will give you Selfs, head spotted, and pieds.

Breeding two pieds together will give you all pieds.

Breeding a pied to a self will give you all head spots.


Head spotting : Heterozygous for White Spotting
Pied: Homozygous for White Spotting
Self: Normal, no spotting gene


I am interested in seeing the all white one. When you get a chance If the eyes are pink, that would be a true albino.

The yellow ones aren't actually albinos, they resemble the Pink eyed dilution of domestic rats.