breeding albinos :D

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Originally Posted by JoshJP7

Do you find its more challenging breeding recessives over doms n co doms? or is it the same challenge across the board? I feel like ive read about more people having problems getting what theyre shooting for with recessives but Id assume its the same challenge anyway you look at it.

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Breeding is breeding and isn't all that difficult if you're armed with the right tools and good information.

Co-doms are nice to work with because of the "instant gratification" factor...a visual male can breed several normal females and you can get a handful of visual morphs in your first clutches.

Recessives are just harder to work with because 2 copies of the mutant gene must be present in order to produce a visual animal. The odds aren't as much in your favor when you're working with heterozygous animals. Farther along in your project though, when you start working with homozygous x heterozygous crosses, the odds are back up to 50%... and up to 100% when you do homozygous x homozygous.

wait so if I breed a co dom or dom to my normal female ill get visual morphs in that clutch? haha ive been researching this for a while.. I guess I miss read something somewhere..

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Originally Posted by Kennyxemerson

wait so if I breed a co dom or dom to my normal female ill get visual morphs in that clutch? haha ive been researching this for a while.. I guess I miss read something somewhere..

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Yes, if you breed a co-dom (pastel, spider, lesser, mojave, etc) to a normal you should, statistically speaking, hatch about 50% that are visual morphs of the co-dom. In other words, if you hatch 4 eggs from breeding a spider to a normal, you should get 2 spiders and 2 normals. These are the odds, but you may get 0 spiders or all 4 spiders as has been mentioned above. Hope that helps.

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Originally Posted by JoshJP7

Ya thats what I was thinking... So pretty much youd have to breed an albino to a spider... get some het albino spiders then breed em back to get your albinospiders and some albinos... Hets are time consuming!!!

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Good things come to those who wait :)

haha wow. I suck. I deffinatly misread something a few months back. wow. whole new game now.

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