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DeCypher

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What happened to all the piebalds? I see pictures of them all the time in older textbooks from the late 80's-90's, but they seem to have all disappeared! The most recent piebald axolotl pic I've seen is from 2001.
My question is, how does one breed to create piebalds? What genetics are required to form a piebald? I would like to try to breed and create some piebalds, possibly raise their population a bit, because I absolutely love piebalds.
 
Here's a nice one from fairly recently and I believe Jay Sommers has produced some in the last year or two

http://www.caudata.org/forum/f46-be...-discussion/77682-interesting-coloration.html

I believe they usually arise out of the leucistic gene and are usually one offs. I find it hard to believe that if you could selectively breed for them then why aren't there many more around. I've yet to see any that look as nice as the one on the cover of the old axolotl book by Scott.

Regards Neil
 
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