Bananas...can someone please explain this gene a little bit?

The title pretty much says it all. I have always loved the banana balls and am finally able to invest in one but I would like to FULLY understand it!! Thanks guys!

Go to you tube and watch the nerd video about coral glows. Same concept. It's thought to be a very weird sex linked dominate trait that has a random crossing over event from one sex gene to the next which creates very powerful males on the first generation of that special male.

Dont google "banana sex ratio". If you do, be sure to delete your browsing history. You may have to re-download your browser too depending what you click on.

I would just watch the NERD video^!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkVEgGqWnmc

So there are NO non breeding issues? Meaning the male and female will all breed...

SO why are there not more bananas out here? A co dom morph thats 9 years old and is still in the hands of just the biggest breeders....does that seem weird to anyone else? Not complaining about the price, just wondering. No banana calico yet? No banana axanthic? Banana G Stripe?

I still have only seen 3-4 at shows. I love the entire look!!

The problem was that people only had females - and VERY few people had males. So it was an extremely slow process of getting them out there, then they hit the male . . . and he changes everything. This is just speculation on my end though.

Thank you for that video!

I saw a bunch at tinley. I've seen a good number of mid sized breeders hatching them this year. Patience they will get to us mortals soon.

there is CG calico...take that into account. I desperately want a CG but want a ghi more... OHHHHH i wanna be rich!

Any banana breeders on here?

And maybe this dumbs it down too much but a female banana breeds a normal male and HALF the hatchlings are bananas. Male hatchling breeds normal female and half the hatchlings are female bananas.....

Got it....so where are ALL these females? LOL!!

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Originally Posted by Wapadi

Any banana breeders on here?

And maybe this dumbs it down too much but a female banana breeds a normal male and HALF the hatchlings are bananas. Male hatchling breeds normal female and half the hatchlings are female bananas.....

Got it....so where are ALL these females? LOL!!

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My friend has a pastel fader coral glow male that he is breeding. He goes by the name Cdavidson9 here. I would PM him.

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Originally Posted by Wapadi

Any banana breeders on here?

And maybe this dumbs it down too much but a female banana breeds a normal male and HALF the hatchlings are bananas. Male hatchling breeds normal female and half the hatchlings are female bananas.....

Got it....so where are ALL these females? LOL!!

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I produced two clutches this year so, on a small scale, I'm a banana breeder. Both clutches were from female bananas/coral glows and I produced one male and three females.

Since I only produced two clutches most of this is from what I've heard and read:

Females seem to throw normal sex ratios.
A male from a male banana produces mostly male bananas.
A male from a female banana produces mostly female bananas.

There are females out there but many breeders used male maker bananas to make more males as the demand for males has been very high.

I hope that helps and isn't too confusing.

He said, "If you're gonna play the game, boy
You gotta learn to play it right

You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
Know when to run

I never really understood it either, man that is weird!

Now there are more males around, what do you think will happen with banana/cg prices over the next 12 months?

I really like them, but I could never spend that much on a snake, no matter how much I like it.

I've only been keeping ball pythons for 18 months, so I've never seen how long it takes for prices of top end morphs to come down a bit.

Next season makes will be 10 grants and females 5 no doubt in my mind