It came back negative for VPI Ax 
expected but really neat to confirm like that 
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Those guys are super nice! Thank you for the pictures! 
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I’m very curious to see black axanthic tested against TSK! I haven’t been able to find anything about them being crossed.
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Watching this in case there are updates when other tests are sampled. Gorgeous snakes
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@colezdanis I’d like to know why you sent the sheds in to begin with? I’ve heard people thought Black Ax was a line of VPI, but no one has ever broke it down for me as to why? Visually the lines looking nothing alike to me personally.
Hi, I’m Randy and I’m a testaholic! Some of us just can help but test.
I’m actually considering testing some animals for GCR/MJ axanthic when that test eventually comes out on a very slim hunch. Years ago I had a piebald with unexpected axanthic areas. Knowing now that paradoxes can show recessive genes they are only het for and that GCR/MJ must have been in an early piebald project I can’t help but wonder if my pied project has that axanthic line.
I have two granddaughters of that paradox that are het VPI axanthic from the other side. I don’t think it’s likely that a double homozygous VPI axanthic and MJ/GCR axanthic will be different / better but before testing no one would dare find out.
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From what I heard Black Axanthic was first produced at VPI, but wasn’t compatible or from the same line of VPI Axanthics that already existed. I’m not sure why the project seems to have changed hands and such though… Since it was so long since TSK had produced their line, it was probably just that super lucky unknown het pairing just happened to prove out… shrug
RGI came out and said that TSK and Black Ax were the same/compatible.
Oh, I know it’s TSK! =D
But that’s the reason people were calling black axanthic VPI. It’s in the morphipedia too. VPI is the origin of Blk ax so people were assuming that meant it was the same.
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