in 2001 when the first animal was born from an amel x classic het amel, people said caramel, or even amber. By the way out of this mating only one animal was born like this, the rest were classic and amel. So with all due respect, if people presume that this couldn’t be anything else than het caramel, then one of the parents must have been het caramel, then I find it odd that this parent only passed the gene onto one of the 21 hatchlings.

In 2004 this animal, a female het amel was bred with an amel het caramel (I didn’t have anything else with caramel in it) to test wether it could be caramel. It didn’t look like it to me but well, the scientists are on the other end of the ocean. Anyway out of this crossing came 7 eggs: 2 classic, 1 amel, 2 like mother and 2 orange hatchlings. Now, dad being het caramel, testing the caramel hypotheses was possible, because in that case everything orange and everything looking like mom couldn’t be anything else than het caramel. To make conversation easier, it got a name: looking like mom became Buf and the orange became Orange. At first there were the names cinnamon and lutino but cinnamon already existed so I chose this. Buf was chosen because it represents a colour that’s yellow brown, like mom looks, brown with a lot of yellow.

In 2006 these animals were crossed with each other. I had an orange male and orange female, and two buf females. Orange x orange gave 7 hatchlings, all orange. So if I believe the scientists this would be amel het caramel x amel het caramel with result everything amel het caramel????? No butter.
Orange x Buf het amel was done twice. Couple 1 got 8 eggs: 1 classic, 1 amel, 2 buf and 4 orange. Couple 2 had 6 eggs : 1 classic, 3 amel, 1 buf and 1 orange. So if it was amel het caramel x classic het amel, caramel and it gave out of 14 eggs: 2 classic, 3 classic het caramel, 4 amel and 5 amel het caramel but again no butters?
So I’m still not convinced that these are only het caramel animals, or caramel animals.

In 2007 another approach to look what it might do in other colors. I took a lavender male and bred it with the F1 orange female. 7 eggs: 2 classic, 2 amel, 1 buf and 2 orange animals. To my surprise the lavender was het amel, I didn’t know. This male came from Marc vervest, I bought it as a young animal in 2004, with two sisters, a lavender and a classic het lavender (from these last two I’ve had several clutches and I always only had lavenders and classic het lavenders).
Also that year I bred F1 orange male x lavender female (sister of the lav male from above). 9 eggs: 6 classic, 3 buf. So this actually says lavender het amel x amel het caramel with result: classic het lav and amel, classic het lav amel and caramel, amel het lav, amel het lav and caramel. Now the hypothesis would be acceptable because no mating took place to test caramel, but nothing more was done than put another colour in the story. I also didn’t have the need to go on because I had enough buf and orange animals, and my space doesn’t allow it.


In 2008 I bred with an ultramel male of wich I’m not sure wether it’s an ultramel male. I got this from a college who didn’t know the story of the male. Probably it’s an animal from ABC reptiles in France, called an “ultimatehypo”. This male I mated with orange as well as buf het amel animals, with result classics, obvious bufs, some unclear, oranges and amels, but no ultramels. (Not a good mating, I only kept the obvious ones but what I’m going to do with them….?)
Also that year a Phantom was brought in the game, mated with the F1 orange femal and an F1 buf het amel female. Result in total 26 eggs: 16 classic, 10 buf coloured animals. These buf animals I kept and plan to breed to each other in 2010 because if I follow the “caramel hypothesis” these would beclassic het amel-hypo-charcoal-caramel x classic het amel-hypo-charcoal-caramel.
Furthermore an orange F1 male was bred with a classic stripe het caramel. 12 eggs: 5 classic, 3 caramel, 4 buf. So now one thing is for sure, the F1 orange male is het caramel and this is possible because his father is het caramel. So this is the first time the hypothesis could be correct. But being who I am I’ll still continue because I feel not everything is clear yet, for nobody I think, but that is more because of the circumstances than consciously done.
And I have a big disadvantage: it looks like something already known i.e. creamsicle, and that together with the het caramel hypothesis doesn’t make things easy and I get a lot of opposition from both sides.

In 2009 more clarity must come by putting caramel in the game. Now on the look for adult caramel animals that can contribute. I bought from a fellow breeder in Belgium, someone named Jelle, a caramel motley and a butter het motley. Funny was the the caramelmotley came from me, son of the classic stripe het caramel female that was bred last year with the F1 orange. Anyway as the buf het amel animals didn’t do anything last year, they could start a little sooner, and so the caramelmotley was introduced to two buf het amel F1 females, but no eggs came. Probably there hadn’t been a mating and the male wasn’t used again. At the moment he’s not looking good either, eating badly and only small prey, but well, have to go on.
What’s left…: I had a golddustmotley and a butter het motley both male. As I have to breed other blood in the line and not linger in my own animals, these are the ones to make or break the hypothesis.
First mating: butter het motley x orange F2. 9 eggs: 3 amels, 6 orange, no butter. Following the hypothesis there should be butter because it would be caramel-amel x amel het caramel.
Second mating: golddustmotley x orange F2. 13 eggs: 4 amel, 1 orange, 5 ultramel and 4 ultramelbuf, again no butter. Now it’s been said these 4 last ones are ultramel het caramel animals, another sais golddust (yes and they’re orange because they are het caramel, golddust is caramel anyway). Following the hypothesis this is ultramelcaramel x amel het caramel, but still no butters. To compare I bred this male with an ultramelmotley het caramel and this gave 11 eggs: 3 buttermotley and 2 ultramelmotley.
It is strange that out of multiple matings, with caramel, I never get caramel as result. That’s why I think the hypothesis ( that orange is nothing else than het caramel) is not true looking at the results from previous years.
Other matings have taken place with orange animals x ultramel, lavender, phantom etc, but these eggs have only just hatched or not hatched yet, so more about that later.

  In 2010 I moved and I have a new room, and it is ready. But because I had little to no time, there are only a few parings done.
 Buf x buf 2 x, Buf het amel and lavender x Amel het  lavender , butter het motley x Orange, buf het  amel and 
lavender x caramel het bloodred  and hypo and Buf het  Blizzard and hypo x Buf het Blizzard and hypo. I am convinced that this is
 a dominant gene and some scholars now too, but the result buf x buf and buf x caramel that would be even can change. 
Today 27 juli the first piping from Buf x Buf    
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