multiple breeding?

I am wondering about cycling in multiply male what effect does it have does it make the clutch possibly have multiple sire's?

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Originally Posted by aff19802

I am wondering about cycling in multiply male what effect does it have does it make the clutch possibly have multiple sire's?

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Short answer yes.

Depending on a few things, but yes, if you put more than one morph male in, there is a possibility of having more than one morph in the clutch

i cycled multiple male through most of my females this year and so far the clutches appear to have a single sire.

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Last season, I put a few different males in with a Normal female.

I produced a Spider and an Enchi side by side.

I tried it with 7 females this season 1 pastel, and 6 normals. I bred them all with a male pastel and male cinnamon to see if it was possible because I was going to do that next season with my female pied to get multiple co-doms het for pied.

This season, I got 35 eggs. So far 10 have hatched, and my odds were terrible, 1 pastel and 9 normals. Keep in mind when you do this, you double your chances of getting normals and cut the chance of morphs in half. I am not 100% sure if both males sired cutches or not just yet, but I have 5 more clutches yet to hatch.

does it really double your chances of getting normals?

Hi,

No it shouldn't. :confused:

Each egg still has a 50% chance of inheriting the morph gene - there can only be one father per egg.

At least that's the way I read the possibilities.


dr del

thats what I thought too. I got real woriied for a second though.