Quad het?

[Raverthug]

I was wondering if it was possible to make a quad het? IE if I was to breed a Albino Pied to a axanthic Ghost (Just an example) would the offspring be het for 4 morphs?

[coldbloodaddict]

Yes...

[Raverthug]

Im surprised no one has done that then.

[tonkatoyman]

When they do, they usually keep the offspring and breed them together. And generally don't publicize it.

[J.Vandegrift]

Im surprised no one has done that then.

I am sure someone out there is trying, but if you breed a pair of quad hets together your chance of hitting the quad visual is 1 in 256. It wpould be a VERY long term project to eventually get the quad visual unless you are ridiculously lucky.

[stevepoppers]

Can someone illustrate this? Or at least show me how to set it up?

[tonkatoyman]

You have to set up a punnet square for it. If you don't know how to run one go to www.geneticswizard.com. They will do it for you.

[RandyRemington]

I'd love to have a pair of quad hets. But unfortunatly I don't expect to see any for sale soon or when we do for them to be within my price range. If I had the money to buy a snow male and a hypo stripe female and a hypo pied female to breed him to (the animals for these pairings actually exist) it would be a hard sell to breed them together and produce normal looking offspring when they could be bred to thier own types and produce clutches of 100% double homozygous. I don't think many would be willing to pay as much for a quad het as say for a hypo stripe or a hypo pied.

But the cool thing about having a pair of quadrouple hets would be the mind boggling variety they could produce. Sure it might take a lifetime to hit the 1 in 256 quadrouple recessive (if you could even tell by looking) but you could produce a huge variety of single, double, and even triple morphs. Also, the chance of each egg containing a non visual would fall to 81/256, less than 1 in 3.

Here is the Punnett for breeding quadrouple het albino (a), axanthic (x), stripe (s), and hypo (h) together:

[RandyRemington]

Sorry, looks like the format changed since the version of my Excel to html Punnett macro that I was able to find.

[dr del]

Hi,

Part of the problem is we do not allow html code on the forum.

Here's a post I made after I finally aowrked out how to make the tables work.

Hi,

I think I've worked out how to use tables (it took me long enough ) on here - is this what you were trying to post?


If I've messed it up during the learning curve let me know and I'll try and fix it.

And here is the code to do it to save anyone else having the same problems I did;

[TABLE] |[B]PS[/B] |[B]Ps[/B] |[B]pS [/B]|[B]ps[/B]
[B]PS[/B] |PPSS |PPSs |PpSS |PpSs
[B]Ps [/B]|PPSs |PPss |PpSs |Ppss
[B]pS[/B] |PpSS |PpSs |ppSS |ppSs
[B]ps[/B] |PpSs |Ppss |ppSs |ppss[/TABLE]


dr del

As you can see I can't do the actual tables very well but that should at least let you get the format.


dr del