Candy vs. Candino

Way better than Banana/Coral Glow, Lavender, or Ultramel. Candies are awesome.

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Originally Posted by Kurtilein

when breeding, its still often the best to mix them.

For example, if you get a het candy, and can choose to breed it to an albino or another het candy, i would totally breed it to the albino. no possible hets, everything is visible. the normal looking ones will be plain old 100% het albinos, and everything that gets the candy gene will be visual, and will also look different to pure albino.

Then you can breed candino to candino, for 50% candino, 25% albino, 25% candy. Then you can breed candino to candy, for 50% candy 50% candino. Also, because there is an awful lot of albinos out there, its a recessive project that you can do without inbreeding, by simply getting albinos with fresh genetics every now and then. You can easily distinguish pure albino from pure candy from candino in the clutches.

so, mixing it with albino is absolutely no problem, because no matter how thoroughly you mix it, whats going on is always visual, and easy to un-mix later. Mixing it has another benefit: you can use albino as a vehicle to get other genes into candy. so instead of breeding candy to pinstripe to make pinstripe het candys and then breeding back.... You just buy a pinstripe albino, in the first generation you already get a bunch of pinstripe candinos, then you can breed these to a different candy or to each other to get candy pinstripe. non-visual hets completely avoided. and people that want to get into the candy project cheaply or that want fresh genetics to reduce inbreeding, they prefer a visible candino over a non-visual het candy.

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You read my mind. That's exactly what I'll be doing.

Regards,

B

I never said it was better for breeding one way or the other. Just saying I prefer the 2 separate. And if I'm lucky enough to have both genes in my collection, I wouldn't cross them.