Spotted argente cream/topaz?

[moghedien]

Does anyone have a picture comparing spotted argente golden to spotted argente cream/topaz, or any pics of a spotted sapphire?

I'm just curious as to how different those look. I'm hoping to get some of those colors out of my latest batch of pups, and I wanna know what to look for! ;D

[sandy]

This is a very good question, one that I have struggled with too. The answer is that there is quite a bit of variation in shading. I can supply you with pictures of my own gerbils that I now know EXACTLY what genes they were carrying and what colour they are. As you can see, there is a big range in colours especially in spotted gerbils. I have been breeding a line of gerbils in which the spotting dilution is at a minimum. Anyways, here goes:

Argente Golden:



Topaz (carries one c(chm) gene), and the colour becomes more tawny, less orange:



Spotted Argente Golden pups next to a Topaz pup, you can see the more muted colour of the unspotted pup. The spotting does not generally dilute the forehead colours as much:



Now my specially bred, pied Argente Golden with minimal dilution of the coat colour:



Here he is next to another pup from another litter, the pup was the lightest spotted Topaz I had ever seen, with a peach colour (darn, I should have kept him):



The spotted Topaz when younger, very light as you can see:



A spotted Argente Golden and a spotted Argente Cream:



And, again, from the same litter, a spotted Argente Cream and a spotted Argente Golden. You can see the more intense colour on the forehead of the Argente Golden:

[doomgerbiluk]

topaz or argente???
I still cant tellt he difference










these are 3 from the same litter with both parents carrying c(chm)

[moghedien]

Thanks for all the wonderful photos! Those really help a lot. ;D

I do have one topaz, the coloring got a lot more obvious as he grew older and the color deepened on his nose/extremities a bit more, but I'd never seen a spotted topaz before.

[sandy]

Oh, and there's a spotted sapphire pup on the end of the four pups in a row with the topaz between two spotted argente's, just so you can see the colour.