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My best guess is that there is something in the blood-

lines concerned, and hopefully eventually we will be

able to refine this condition and can start to predict

exactly what’s going on. This coming season I will be

crossing a reverse Paradox albino male back to his

sister or mum. If we get higher proportions of Paradox

from directly-related animals then we are going some-

where. The male concerned in a Caramel animal with

albino patches. I tried to breed from him last year but

he just was not up to it. It will be interesting because

right where his hemipenes are is a big patch of albino,

so I will be very curious to see what he breeds as. I

want to work out what he will produce before putting

him over too many females – he could breed as a het

or an albino. I’m also trying to remove as much

Darwin blood as possible to determine whether the

Paradox trait is tagging along with the Darwin genes.

I’m pretty sure that every Paradox animal I have ever

produced has been a male, which is why I haven’t

kept all of them. My feeling at this stage is that the

Paradox state needs to be present on both sides of

the family tree in order to be expressed. All of the

ones that I have produced have come from pairings

that are closely related. There is a lot of work still to

be done, but the next couple of years will be very

interesting.

‘Hopefully we can refine the

condition and start to predictpredict

exactlyexactly what’s going on.’

Above: Paradox Sunglow (hypo albino)..

Below: reverse Paradox (Caramel with albino

patches).

Right (slide show): Caramel Paradox Jag (Caramel

Jag with axanthic patches) and Paradox Ghost Zebra

Jag believed to be the only one in the world.

Images by Jarred Sharp.

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