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    just a question about recessives

    If you breed 2 100% het albinos you have a chance to produce a visual and all the rest are 66% hets right.

    Also if you breed 2 66% hets can you produce a visual morph?

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    Re: just a question about recessives

    Only if both "66% hets" turn out to be hets.

    To clarify, 66% hets are marketed as such since they have a 66% chance of being het; however, they are either het or they're not. If they're not, you're only breeding normals.

    I hope that makes sense...

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    Re: just a question about recessives

    Quote Originally Posted by ed4281 View Post
    If you breed 2 100% het albinos you have a chance to produce a visual and all the rest are 66% hets right.
    Correct. Each egg as a 1/4 chance of inheriting two allels for Albino, making it a visual Albino, a 1/2 chance of inheriting one allel for Albino, making it Het Albino, and a 1/4 chance of not inheriting any Albino allels, making it a Normal. So out of the normal appearing offspring in the clutch, each has a 2/3 (66%) chance of being Het Albino (carrying the Albino gene).

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    Also if you breed 2 66% hets can you produce a visual morph?
    It depends. Since a 66% Het only has a 2/3 chance of carrying the gene (like Albino), there is still a 1/3 chance that it doesn't (so in this case, it could be a normal). So if both 66% Hets prove out to be Hets (100% Hets), then yes visual morphs can be produced (like Albinos). If one or both are actually normals and not 100% Hets, though, then no, you can't. The problem with that is that you won't know if you just missed the odds, or if one of them (or both of them) just aren't Hets. And even then, you wouldn't know which one (or both) is a normal and which is a Het.
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