Bell with some unexpected colors!

[Khrysty]

I wish I had pictures for you guys--I'll get some soon I promise. I hatched a couple geckos from this pairing:

Kamea: Mack Snow het blizzard, possibly het bell (now proven of course)
Basil: Mack Snow blizzard, possibly het bell (proven)

The female, Asha, looks like any Bell I've ever seen before, except, of course, she's a little more speckled than normal due to the het blizzard.

The male, though, looks different. Fai almost looks like a sunglow. All of his pattern faded into this lovely lemon yellow color with light lavender splotches on the back--but they're fading too. And he has absolutely no spots. His tail is mostly pink with a little lavender and that reddish brown that passes for black on albinos. He's also got this cool orange stripe going down either side of the tail.

Anyway, there's no real point to this post I guess. I've just been pretty surprised seeing his colors change through the months. Asha and Fai looked identical when they hatched out. Now they're so different. I wonder what was in whose genes that caused such a drastic difference in appearance..

 

[eyelids]

Cool... Who'd you get the parents from?

 

[Khrysty]

Female is from BlackDiamondGeckos and male is from Chazthaking2

 

[Dog Shrink]

Isn't it amazing how you can see a little of each parent's influence in each animal. I'm always amazed when I breed a litter of rabbits to see there is always 1 that gets the best of both parents, one that gets the worst of both parents, half are mom's color, and half are dads color, and there's usually 1 oddball that you wonder where the heck did THAT come from. Perfect example, my last litter was an all black mom, a broken grey dad, and the litter was 2 blacks, 2 cehstnut brown and one that was broken (spotted) chestnut charlie (which means less than 10% broken color so mostly white with a little of the other color spotted thru out). They get the broken from dad, the black from mom, and the chestnut is way back in the pedigrees on both parents.

I barely scrape by with understanding the genetics on my rabbits, god love y'all that are morph pros... I don't see that happening for me for quite some time. Can't wait to see pix of your little ones

 

[Khrysty]

Got some pics

I noticed the purple is fading on Asha too, but I don't think it's going to go completely. As far as ages go, these two were born two days apart, with Asha coming first, then Fai.

Asha:

Fai:

 

[Brewboy74]

Very pretty.