Post pics of your anery red sideds?

[d_virginiana]

You completely miss the point. "Hashing it out" as you call it is thought provoking and generates new ideas and points of view. That is never a bad thing. What you suggest is that we all stop discussing it and remain the dark ages.

It's been brought up before that no research has been done as to that *actual* nature of the pigmentation in anery, axanthic, melanistic, ect. garters. The exact mechanism of how these traits are expressed isn't known. I know a good bit about genetics, but not so much about garter breeding and traits, so I've been staying out of the discussion but it's been very interesting to read this thread...
It seems to me though that until actual research is done into what genes cause these traits and the mechanisms of expression involved (ie; do anerys have a faulty production mechanism for red pigment, or do they produce an enzyme which blocks an otherwise functional red production mechanism, or any other hundreds of things that could happen to get this trait and which could effect how it acts when passed to future generations) that all people are arguing is semantics, and that doesn't get anyone anywhere. Until someone decides to drag a bunch of garters into a lab and test them, it's really up to a breeder what they call a particular morph...

I am going to post a wanted Ad on KS for Black Bean Phantom Gasses.

DO IT! I'd love to see any replies to that