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  • 06-05-2012, 03:08 PM
    Meltdown Morphs
    Re: what would you do if you proved out a morph?
    I'm glad this thread got started cause I was thinking or starting one with a similar topic. I have two dinkers I bred this year ,many of you have probably seen pics of, for the longest I have only been dropping the pics,updates and stuff on this forum, and I only posted about it once on bush league.

    Since I finally got eggs out of the two it seems the male has proven to be genetic but as the babies go thru their second shed it doesn't look like mom has affected their colors so I'm gunning for hers to be recessive.
    I haven't asked any of the 'big breeders' what they think in all the time I have had them.
    I got 4.5 babies with 4 of the females being visual for dads trait,all the males are generally 'normal' appearing, with an -iffy- one that's my definite hold back.
    I only had a couple people from the forums interested in moms genes but the way the babies turned out I pretty much can't let go of any of the females, not even the 1 'normal' female.

    Also If its recessive why would you let go of females first?
  • 06-05-2012, 07:00 PM
    Brewster320
    If I realized I had a new morph I'd probably work on it and stay relatively hush hush until I know what's going on exactly with it. I'd probably also talk to only a few people about it so I can have other opinions and some help. Only release females every now and then but keep back most of what I produce until I'm ready to really come out publicly with it.

    You come out too soon and release males to soon someone may pay attention to what your doing, pick up some males, breed to several females and produce several dozen offspring in one season and quickly catch up on all your work and possibly take the credit for your hard work.

    You release just a few females and stay relatively quiet than you're less likely to have someone "stalking" your project waiting for their chance to jump in on it and with females all anyone's going to get out of them is a clutch a year so it would take much longer for them to catch up to you and by then you'd probably already have come out public with it and have the full credit for a new morph.
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