Is there anything special about this guy?

Aww nuts. So its about to be on like donkey kong then? Het to het, double het offspring to single het parents? Or double het to double het?

Hi,

Pretty much all of the above since you would be trying to prove out every single animal for at least one mutuation and the offspring for two.

That's why poss hets are a risk - you could do all that and find out both parents were 100% normal.

The quickest way to prove out your poss hets is with a visual homozygous for the same mutation - because at the very least all offspring from that will be garuanteed 100% het.

There really are no shortcuts I'm afraid - you either spend money or you spend time, and spending time has no gaurantee of success.

Of course you do get baby snakes in the process so it isn't all bad.


dr del

Hey Im fine with time, Ive got 30+ years with all these guys. Im still gonna put em together, maybe something crazy'll happen.

Yup,

Thats the fun of dinking. :D

You could try keeping the morph possibilities seperate to simplify things a bit if you wanted.

So say,

Sprite x Ribbit, hold back some of the male babies and try and prove out mum.

? x Itsy Bitsy, hold back all of the female babies, grow them up and try and prove out dad.

And, from both pairings hold back what you need to try for sibling to sibling.

Might shave a few years off the process of finding out what you actually have without having to buy any more animals.


dr del

w00t...A game plan, I like it. Ribbit won't be ready this year, so Sprite's going to plug away at a Spider female this year. I have to wait until next year for the poss hets. Well actually the lav. should be ready this year. Im just stoked to get started. I can have a million normals hatch and still be stoked.