GHI Black Axanthic
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Lol, always the pretty ones.
GHI BlkAx looks real nice together
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She certainly looks worth the trouble, hopefully she starts eating better for you!
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Pretty girl, for certain. It’s frustrating when any of them are picky. It’s especially frustrating when the ones you want to keep are challenging to feed. Hopefully this lovely one will get past that soon.
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Very nice! Thanks for sharing. Do you think she is the dark phase sometimes seen in TSK or is all of her dark from GHI? Are they making any progress at figuring out why some TSK axanthics go super dark? I just got a clutch this morning that could possibly produce this so awesome to see how nice this combo can be.
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I would say her darks just come from being ghi. Dark tsk bax stuff can be dark from out of the egg and mature with every shed or sometimes they can go through an extreme and rapid color change at some point in their lives. Other axanthic lines can have some dark weirdness happen as well. And even nonaxanthic animals can have freak melanin changes between sheds as for why no one knows but it seems to be pretty common with pastel. Here is a very dark phase pastel that i bought as a black axanthic pastel but when paired to a bax male i had, i only got pastel and normal bax hets, no visual axanthics so she was not actually a black axanthic but she was pastel. This was before shed testing axanthic was availabile so i do not know if she was visual for a different line or just a pastel that darkened. But best of luck 
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Thanks. I could for sure see why that pastel female passed for axanthic. Did you keep in possible double het axanthic babies? I’m not working too hard at it but now that shed testing is available i wouldn’t mind identifying some double het axanthic (in my case TSK and VPI) babies to possibly make a double visual someday. I don’t think it’s very likely a double line axanthic would age any better but if nothing else would offer breeding flexibility.