dragonfire1577
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Here is a full grown specimen showing the lighter coloration I'm seeing.
Oniscus asellus "Mardi Gras Dalmatian"
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dragonfire1577
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I wouldn't say they fall outside the normal spectrum completely but almost every offspring is that lighter color which contrasts when I put one next to my original male for example.
My main colony is like half normal individuals, and half that look like this one. I've tried isolating orange tinted juveniles produced by light individuals like these, but they always just come out kind of tan by maturity.
dragonfire1577
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Well mine is also fully isolated now.
dragonfire1577
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Here are a few younger ones.
dragonfire1577
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I would say now that I have a group of animals it still looks like these are a little darker but I'm not sure. I also outcrossed pretty heavily to normal individuals as my colony expanded I wanted a larger gene pool. I just kept adding them in a few at a time and then recently I started pulling any Dalmatian animals out that I found.
Nice, they look pretty similar to mine! Doesn't seem like they have as many gold flecks on them though, unless I just can't make them out in the picture?
Here are some pictures I took of mine recently:
dragonfire1577
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Definitely seems like they are a slightly different from my dalmatian strain then.
dragonfire1577
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Now we gotta test cross a few!Definitely seems like they are a slightly different from my dalmatian strain then.
dragonfire1577
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Also some of mine aren't a clean white color, they are like a light grey with black and yellow spots overlaying it.