Colors

• standard grey + white = mosaic
• beige + white = pink white
• white + white = lethal white (don't breed this)
• sapphire + white = white sapphire
• violet + white = white violet
• black + white = mosaic 
• ebony + white = white ebony

Ok, so today's post will be an educational post, for people to learn about the colors.  There's only a few basic colors, but there's a variety of ways to modify them, so for educational purposes, let me go ahead and confuse you :D

There's the basic colors

• standard grey
• beige
• white
• sapphire
• violet
• black
• ebony

Most of those colors become a different color if the white gene is added to them.  For example, if you add a white to the beige gene, you get a pink white.  So, additional colors

• standard grey + white = mosaic
• beige + white = pink white
• white + white = lethal white (don't breed this)
• sapphire + white = white sapphire
• violet + white = white violet
• black + white = mosaic 
• ebony + white = white ebony

You can also add ebony to most of these colors:

• standard grey + ebony = ebony
• beige + ebony = tan
• white + ebony = white ebony
• sapphire + ebony = sapphire wrap
• violet + ebony = violet wrap
• black + ebony = TOV ebony
• ebony + ebony = more ebony

You can also create a TOV version of most of these colors, by breeding a black velvet (TOV) chinchilla to these colors.  So...

• standard grey + TOV = black velvet
• beige + TOV = brown velvet
• white + TOV = TOV white
• sapphire + TOV = TOV sapphire
• violet + TOV = TOV violet
• black + TOV = black velvet
• ebony + TOV = TOV ebony

Certain genes can be carried as well -- the recessive genes.  Ebony is a recessive, as well as sapphire, violet, blue diamond (well, a double recessive).  Not colors, but the curly / locken and angora genes are recessive as well.  For those genes, you need both parents to carry the gene, and both to pass the gene down to their offspring, to possess an animal that has that color.  I'll talk about that in another post at some point. 

A lot of these genes can be stacked as well, and can all be expressed at once.  Therefore, it is possible to have a TOV white sapphire wrap that carries violet and curly.  Not saying a good breeder would breed for something like that, but is is possible.

And of course, a few of these colors can be modified by other colors.  For example, a beige, as most people think of it, tends to be a hetero beige, which is the darker of the two beige colors.  If you breed two beiges together, you have a chance of having a chinchilla born with two beige genes, which would be a homo beige.  That would be a lighter, more champagne-y beige.  Due to the two beige genes, a homo beige can only pass along a beige gene when bred.

If you breed sapphire and violet together (well, more specifically, a sapphire that carries violet, and a violet that carries sapphire), you have the chance of getting a blue diamond, which is a chin that expresses both recessive genes of sapphire and violet, and has a powdery blue type color.

There are also recessive whites, such as the Lowe's recessive white, also known as a goldbar.  These are a gold-ish color.

To piggy-back off the last post just a little bit... you see the variety of colors that are out there.  Some of these are more unusual than others, and you don't see some of them so often... but there are quite a few colors or combinations of colors.  So, when people say they are looking for something unique... this is why I ask further what they are looking for... because there's just so much out there, a little more clarification can be useful...