Hi Lisa,
I have a silver nutmeg too, and based on his coloring,
other sn gerbs I've seen, and pics on the Net, there
is a good degree of variation between silver nutmegs.
Mine has a grayish streak from the tip of his nose,
along his back, to the tip of his tail that gets a bit
darker everyday, it seems. You can still see the
white mixed in though. His belly is still more or
less white, though the gray is spreading a little down
there. He was creamy white as a pup, with a smudge of
pale honey color on his head. We thought he might be
a champagne at first, then did our homework. Alas, I
don't know what his parents were, though his brother
is a DEH.
My sn is about 9 weeks old and still molting, so maybe
yours are still only at the beginning of the molting
process and they have a ways to go.
I don't know anything about polar foxes though, but
just thought I would share my bit of sn wisdom. :)
Sondra
--- Lisa Hawkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello list,
> i am hoping someone out there has experience with
> polar foxes...
> I have a sn & a grey agouti pair that had two creamy
> white babies. When
> compared to the german site and photo's on the color
> palette they looked
> like polars. Well as they get older they are
> getting more and more greyish
> but not dark like my silver nutmegs.
>
> Elizabeth's pictures show her mary-eben to be
> lighter than my babies but
> they dont look real dark...
>
> they seem to have moulted a bit once already. But
> now they are a light
> greyish. They could almost look like a very pale
> smokey grey agouti.
>
> What i am wondering is what color variations have
> people seen. I know noone
> who has or has seen a polar except in pictures.
>
> I know that the colors can really vary- I have a
> silver nutmeg spot who is
> practically white! yet his offspring look like
> normal sn and sn spots....
> incidentally this is the polar foxes daddy.
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
> lisa
>
> gerbil topia
>
>
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