Here is a white-bellied agouti (wild-coloured) gerbil, a female called Daim. (No mutated colour genes.)
This is Aristoteles Arriba a dark eyed honey, one of the first three gerbil babies that was born at my home. Sadly enough, Arriba had to be put down after a stroke.
Dark eyed honey, with less black tips, slowly lightens with age. Easy to see the difference bet ween this colour and the true dark eyed honey at the age of over 1 year.
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Here is Mint, a grey agouti male that I got along with Daim, and their little son Ako. Ako is also grey agouti.
These photo shows my argente Aristoteles Igor.
This photo shows my best coloured red eyed honey so far - Aristoteles Dinky. Red eyed honey is my favourite gerbil colour, and therefore the colour I mainly aim to breed.
This is Aristoteles Askim a red eyed honey, one of the first three gerbil babies that was born at my home, Askim is one of Arriba's littermates (they were only three, the third is my pet Asta). This colour is lighter than normal red eyed honey, and slowly lighten with age.
This colour is called red eyed orange mold, and looks like a pale red eyed honey that loses the orange colour more or less completely, it just fades away with time. The gerbils in the photo are Aristoteles Qina and Aristoteles Qessan at the age of 2 months. A couple of weeks before I took this photo they looked just like normal red eyed honey. A couple of weeks later they had lost almost all their orange colour, except on their tails.
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These photo shows my ivory cream Aristoteles Isa, Igor's sister. Isa's colour is a pale
cream, or pale yellowish cream. She looks a lot lighter in the photo than she actually is.
This is my apricot female, called Aristoteles Larona. Note that she looks like an albino.
She looks darker in the photo, her colour is much lighter than Isa's. I might actually have been the first in Sweden to have this colour (2000).
Photos by Eva Johansson.
Last update: 2nd of October 2006.