[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: AUS "chocolate free" Colors
Dujardin Colin wrote:
snip...
> I found three colors on the web, gold, orange and/or yellow (I'm not
> sure if yellow is different of orange).
> The photos i've seen on the killi.net show males that keep the central
> part of the caudal fin brown or light brown for the gold and the yellow
> forms. I did not manage to find a clear difference betwween the two
> colors.
>
> My male is already different, the centerpart of the caudal is very light
> orange, the body is orange with a few tiny red spots.
> For the females, the body is pale orange, one has tiny red spots and the
> other has an uniform color with no spots. They are very translucides so
> i can see the eggs under the swimming bladder and behind the bowels.
>
> I'll be pleased if anybody around here could help me.
I'm not sure I can help, for I have had similar experiences with definitions
of AUS colors.
My best guess is that the reduced melanin (or other dark pigment) is a
naturally occuring phenomenon, and that careful selection and line breeding
can make it "more pure." Hence, the degrees of color can range from very
red-orange all the way to pale yellow, and near albinism.
My chocolates have thrown reds (oranges?), from time-to-time, and seem to be
more colorful than other chocolates I have seen. It is possibly because they
are carrying a recessive gene for reduced dark pigment, and the dominant
dark gene has something less than 100% penetration. This could allow the
underlying red/yellow colors to bleed through a little bit.
Surely, someone on the list has studied this effect in AUS. Help!
Wright
--
Wright Huntley, Fremont CA, USA, 510 494-8679 huntleyone at home dot com
"DEMOCRACY" is two wolves and a lamb voting on lunch.
"LIBERTY" is a well-armed lamb denying enforcement of the vote.
*** http://www.self-gov.org/index.html ***
---------------
See http://www.aka.org/AKA/subkillietalk.html to unsubscribe
References: