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I am not sure what the suspected female Lava is. I haven’t noticed this obvious of a differences between male and female Lavas. Females can be as extreme as males, but some brightness differences can be seen. I have seen some hatchling Lavas, that look very extreme, almost see through, but after a few months it is not as noticeable. I am not sure if this female is a Lava, but I think it will be obvious a month from now. It looks like, what I envision a Dilute Normal to look like. Normal colors shaded to a lighter color.

It appears that the known Lava produced in this clutch has normal eyes. I have begun to produce some Lavas with ruby eyes, with no explanation for its occurrence. Can we “selectively” breed within a morph such as Lava, to produced different color eyes, or even the amount of reduction in melanin the Lava gene stops?

Lava has proven to me to leak some melanin through. Can we select offspring that will allow more melanin through to produced “Paradox” Lavas, and go the other way, to produced Ruby Eyed Lavas? Can we selectively breed for the “strength” of genes.

I can not see enough difference in the Ice/Diamond hatchling to say it is not an Ice. I can’t wait to see a phenotype from this clutch of other similar clutches that we can say, appears to be the Diamond phenotype.

The “Diamond” name is just a proposal, that came up when I thought I had one before. It has since proved to be an Ice. Raw diamonds, are what the name was derived from, plus with Charcoal as an ingredient, correlations can be made to diamonds. Charcoal, with the heat from Lavas, turn Charcoal into a Diamond in the rough. This is what I was thinking when I considered the name. Time will tell if it is a fitting name, and tusage and acceptance will be the deciding factors.