coral glows

[OldState81]

Hello everyone, I just learned of the male maker/female maker traits of coral glows and banana ball pythons? Is there an advantage to either having a male maker or female maker? Breeders would generally desire more females over males? Any thoughts?

[Lizardlicks]

The advantage is mostly in just predictability. I don't think one is more highly valued than the other, and from what I understand, the sex link trait has actually been weakening over successive generations.

[kxr]

Females are worth more (at least here in Canada). I believe the reason for this is that females most of the time must be produced either by female makers which come from females (which take longer to raise) or females themselves. The other factor that might contribute to that is the fact that female bananas give off 50/50 sex ratios. Personally I bought a female banana so I wouldn't have to deal with the whole "maker" phenomena... or at least not until I start shooting for recessive banana combos

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Females are harder to come by, and if you want to make a super you will need a female, so having a female maker make (more expensive than a male maker) or having a female can help your own project and also help produce something in demand.

[cchardwick]

Can someone explain how you get a male maker vs. female maker?

Not sure if I got this right, so if you breed a male coral glow to a female non-coral glow the coral glow offspring will give mostly males...? And if you breed a female coral glow to a non-coral glow the coral glow offspring will produce mostly females...? And if you cross a coral glow with a coral glow the coral glow offspring will give 50:50...?

I think most breeders would agree that females are usually more desirable in most cases, males don't lay any eggs LOL. And you can pair one male to several females. So unless your male is really special you generally want females. But if you get a new morph, or a snake with a lot of genes, or a really expensive morph, then a male may be desirable since you can pass that gene on to as many females as fast as possible.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Female CG (or Banana) will produce equal sex ratio, the males produced by those females are female makers, this means the CG offsprings sired by that male will be females while the rest of the non CG offsprings will be males.

A male CG that is produced by a Male CG is a Male maker, producing Male CG hatchlings while the non CG hatchlings will be females.

Of course it's not always true and a male maker can produce females every non and than and vice versa.

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