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Post by minisonnette on May 23, 2017 3:07:40 GMT -8
Hi everyone, So today I went to q pet shop to buy some food and saw this little guy still waiting to be adopted. He had been waiting for nearly 10 weeks now so I decided to give him a home and took him back with me  I love his colour but am not sure of what it is. He is a very light ginger and white belly. The area around his red eyes seems slightly lighter. He also has 2 tiny spots on his head/neck. Could he be spotted? Thank you in advance for your help!  Is he Argente? Argente cream? Topaz? REH? |
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Post by katray21 on May 23, 2017 6:35:37 GMT -8
If he has a white belly, I'd say topaz with very light spotting
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Post by minisonnette on May 23, 2017 8:45:04 GMT -8
Thank you Katray21! Let's hope he can pass on the spotting gene |
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Post by betty on May 24, 2017 1:47:06 GMT -8
There are three main ginger types and they are easy to tell apart with the following steps:
Firstly, rub or blow her fur up the wrong way. If it is grey or silver underneath - and only ginger on top - then he is an Argente (Cream or Fawn depending on here genes - he doesn't look ginger enough for a Golden in your image).
If the fur underneath is ginger, then look to the white tummy - is his tummy totally white from his chin all the way to his bottom - just like your Dark-Eyed Honeys (DEH)? He can't be a REH without that same amount of white on him.
If he only has a small amount of white on his tummy, maybe the chin, neck and chest - then he is most likely a spotted Saffron.
NB: Spotted gerbils always have white on their tummies whether their original colour has or not. The first two colours I mentioned (Argentes and REHs) always have white bellies anyway - whether they are spotted or not - so as long as he has a white tail tip - he most likely carries the spotting gene (tail tips can be white from damage at birth too).
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Post by minisonnette on May 24, 2017 5:06:18 GMT -8
Thank you Betty, this is so clear and useful!
I noticed blue/grey undertone in his fur so I guess he is argente fawn in the end. A very light one maybe.
Unfortunately his tail tip doesn't seem to have any white :/
Are argente fawn and Topaz the same?
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Post by Shooting Star on May 24, 2017 7:20:17 GMT -8
Very minimally spotted Argente Cream or Argente Fawn (Topaz).
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Post by minisonnette on May 24, 2017 7:53:01 GMT -8
Thank you Shooting Star I read once that some really lightly spotted ended up having heavily spotted pups. So you never know right? |
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Post by Shooting Star on May 24, 2017 8:43:01 GMT -8
Depends on the other parent, yeah.
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Post by betty on May 25, 2017 1:52:35 GMT -8
Yeah, I had a female who didn't really look spotted at all but which had spotted even pied youngsters. She was a LCP Agouti so her coat was a bit broken anyway and she had the tiniest white tail tip. Her unspotted partner and/or her must have had some great modifiers... She had several pups with full blazes on their face and wide collars as well as standard three spot markings. She also had plenty of Strawberry Creams (spotted REH) as they are called - beautiful pups. These ee gerbils as pups have hardly any ginger on them and appear very white indeed. It soon moults out though and they ginger-up again.  |
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Post by minisonnette on May 25, 2017 2:19:17 GMT -8
Oh wahou this one is adorable! Fingers crossed for modifiers then! Time will tell i will let you know! |
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