Really confused about my gerbils' colors.

[gerbilmom18]

Hi there, I have two gerbils, Hans and Franz. Hans is mostly white/grey/blonde with black eyes, and Franz is white/grey with red eyes. Wondering if anyone would know exact names of their colors, I'm not really a gerbil expert (lol)

[tuftsnfluff]

What cuties!!

Colors can be tricky, especially the whites as there's SO many of them!

How old are they?  Are they still molting?   Are they Siblings?

I'll take a stab in the dark here and say possible Red eyed Polar Fox and Polar Fox?

However, if the blacked eyed one is still young enough to be considered molting, he could go darker and end up Silver Nutmeg, but he doesn't look dark enough for that even if he carried the Cc(h) gene responsible for lightening.

That's my guess!  

[gerbilmom18]

tuftsnfluff that was so helpful!! I'm not entirely sure about their age, although they've definitely already molted. They might be siblings, although honestly I got them from Petsmart and I don't know for sure. I've looked at pictures of other Polar Fox gerbils and I think they look similar.

[tuftsnfluff]

I'm super jelly!

I'd LOVE to have a Polar Fox in my kennel, but sadly, they aren't very common where I am in my metroplex.

I love the uw(d)uw(d) (otherwise known as "gg') colors!

[betty]

Difficult from a face view - do you have any side view images for us as this could help narrow it down some more.

My Polar Fox female is much smoother-looking in colour than your guy there, and your red-eyed guy looks like one of my Sapphires?

Mind you, I'm not very good at identifying the paler colours from most images!