Pewter Male X Normal Female

[jglass38]

Im confused now. So if I bred a bee to a norm then I could get bees? Same principal just different morphs involved.

Yep...

[cinderbird]

Im confused now. So if I bred a bee to a norm then I could get bees? Same principal just different morphs involved.

yes you can.

[sg1trogdor]

Well I guess the old saying is true. "The Day you stop learning is the day you die" lol. HMMMM now I want to purchase some codom combos lol. Nah screw it im close enough to making some myself.

[nixer]

YES!!!

This is one of my Pewter to Normal clutches...

i wish i get this lucky with my bumblebee x mojave clutch

[Eventide]

Yep, a Pewter crossed with a normal will give you 25% Pewters, 25% Pastels, 25% Cinnamon/Black Pastels, 25% normals. (Just did a quick-and-dirty Punnett square.)

[BurmGirl23]

Thanks Guys! That is one nice looking clutch there LadyOhh! I hope i get as lucky as you!

[SGExotics]

Cool Thanks! Any Hets ?

LOL i was talking to the guy at my reptile shop, and he asked some pairings i might do this season, and i said "Maybe spider to normal to get a few spiders and normals", and he said, "you wont get any normals, you will get spiders and het spiders" HAHAHA

[h00blah]

wow, Lady got FOUR pewters... thats just not real LOL

[WingedWolfPsion]

I think the clearest way to explain it is this:

If you know that a het animal does not show the trait it is het for (it looks normal), and it takes two copies of that gene to show it (for example, to make an albino, you need 2 copies of the albino gene--one copy gives you a het)...

Then....

Think of co-dominant animals as het for super. In other words, cinnamon is het for super-cinnamon. Pastel is het for super-pastel. It is just that with co-doms, the het animals do not look normal.

A pewter is therefore actually double-het for super-cinnamon and super-pastel. Do you see? It's heterozygous for both traits, it's not homozygous for anything.

Since you only need one copy of the gene to show a visual trait in the animal, the parent, which carries one copy of each different gene (cinnamon and pastel) can pass on one copy of each to its offspring--resulting in another pewter. It might also pass on the normal copies of those genes--resulting in a normal, in the same clutch. Or it might pass on only one, and one normal copy--resulting in a pastel, or in a cinnamon.

If you breed a pewter to a pewter, then the fun REALLY would begin. You'd have a chance that one copy of each co-dom gene would be passed from each parent, resulting in the super forms...so you could get super-pastel silver streaks (not sure what those are called), silver streaks, sterlings, pewters, super pastels, super-cinnamons, pastels, cinnamons, and normals... lol.

[Dr_Gonz0]

The pastel, spider, cinnamon genes, in whatever co dom double morph you are using, all reside on different alleles. They are not the same as supers, or animals that can have 2 different genes share the same allele, such as a super stripe(yellowbelly and specter) or a lucy created with a combination of lesser/mojave/butter/russo.

Robin
H2 Exotics