Phantom
The New ACR Phantom Collection
I first coined the term Phantom back in the mid-2000's after accidentally discovering there was a recessive gene in my best pinstripes. At first I tried calling them Patternless Pinstripes, but all the literal types kept complaining that they're not actually patternless (though no one minded that in patternless leopard geckos), so back to the drawing board on a name. Fortunately, Phantom was quickly accepted by the masses.
For the next 12-15 or so years, I focused my phantom-efforts on Dalmatians and non-Dalmatians, but didn't put much effort into introducing other pattern genes/traits. I just didn't expect we'd see a lot of success, due to Phantom's tendency to reduce the white markings, or so I thought. Over time, thanks to a lot of outcrossing and the Phantom gene making its way into other projects, I started to realize Phantom doesn't necessarily suppress ALL white markings, and that it was actually a great canvas for making combos.
In 2019, it was off to the races. I decided to build what I referred to as a "parallel collection" of Phantoms. The idea was to build a Phantom version of my entire collection, including every project I have, using all of the same genes. It has been 5 years and 3 generations (give or take a generation) since I started putting this modern phantom collection together. To say I'm excited to finally start offering these Phantom combos to you guys would be an understatement!