Now out - new pictures today.
I can't believe my luck with these new ones.
I've been trying to work on the dark sunkissed line. Very few people have them, as far as I know it's only Don Soderberg and Charles Pritzel that have a few and I was fortunate enough to be able to talk Don out of one of his.
That being said, I had bad luck with my dark sunkissed pairings last year. It seems that the line is more than likely very inbred and must be outcrossed to be saved. Also, they seems to have an endless appetite and some tended to not gain weight, even though they'd eat every few days. I lost many directly crossed babies last year. I have found that via outcrossing, I seem to be having MUCH better luck with healthy hatchlings.
The gene is very dominant and I'm curious if it's a different line than normal sunkisseds. They are much darker and the borders are much more pronounced/thicker and the sunkissed style of markers are much more dramatic.
ANYWAY, this picture is from a pairing between my main male dark sunkissed and a very light charcoal female that I have, who was thought to be possibly het sunkissed. From her babies that were hatched last year, I found that she is most likely Redcoat/Redfactor as well; which just plain doesn't show up on charcoal background. Many of her babies (even the normals) have a very bright red wash over them, that can only be attributed to some sort of dominant red factor.
Well, today, we just proved her out het sunkissed.
AMAZINGLY, I've got a good group of babies who I speculate to be Redcoat sunkissed - dark line.