My First Project... a little understanding.

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The odds of producing normals go down too. Some people freak out about the long odds of producing the ultimate combo and forget this part. For example, if you had a pair of quadruple hets (lets say someone breeds an axanthic piebald to an albino stripe) then sure, your odds of producing the snow stripe piebald is only 1 in 256 per egg. But your odds of producing a complete normal (not het for anything) are also 1 in 256. Even your odds of producing normal looking animals go down to 81/256 (less than 1 in 3). So rather than only expecting about 1 /4 of your clutch to me morphs as when breeding single hets with quadruple hets you now expect over 2/3rds of your clutch to be at least one visible morphs and you could breed the pair for the rest of your life and still perhaps not see all possible combinations.

Thanks for your input... It helps a lot in terms of helping me to understand the scope of what I'd like to do and some of the avenues I can take.

Logistically I understand that the odds are a little long but I'm not really trying to make a buck its just somthing I'd like to try accomplish. I've always wanted to breed my own morph. Hopefully it will catch my son's interest and we can do it together.