Variety: Marten
Genetics: cm on C Locus
Description:
Marten the "red eyed devils" as they used to be known as is a fairly newer variety in which they have a darker colored rat with red eyes.
Marten was discovered in 2008 by René Bastiaans, he then named it RED or red eyed devil. Once the rats were imported to Europe in 2010 they were renamed to Martens, likely because of the stigma of the red eyed devil name, I would assume.
Marten is a dominant gene that only works on C Locus (so albino or himalayan). They can be Black eyed if they carry the Black Eyed (BE) gene. They can be many different colors but works best on dark colors.
As babies they can have a very unique and pretty marbled appearance, but this is actually not ideal. As they grow and molt their color fades some giving them this unique look. Ideally, we would want a non-pointed (so albino) dark dark black for a Marten to really have that striking black rat with red eyes appearance. But this can be a rare find these days.
Marten the "red eyed devils" as they used to be known as is a fairly newer variety in which they have a darker colored rat with red eyes.
Marten was discovered in 2008 by René Bastiaans, he then named it RED or red eyed devil. Once the rats were imported to Europe in 2010 they were renamed to Martens, likely because of the stigma of the red eyed devil name, I would assume.
Marten is a dominant gene that only works on C Locus (so albino or himalayan). They can be Black eyed if they carry the Black Eyed (BE) gene. They can be many different colors but works best on dark colors.
As babies they can have a very unique and pretty marbled appearance, but this is actually not ideal. As they grow and molt their color fades some giving them this unique look. Ideally, we would want a non-pointed (so albino) dark dark black for a Marten to really have that striking black rat with red eyes appearance. But this can be a rare find these days.