Spider Male/Pastel Female

[Kinra]

Ok so which ever babies dont show the dominate trait of the parents after my pairing does that mean the other babies will be 100% het for spider and pastel? how does that work?

There are no hets with spiders and pastels.

Here is a short quick genetics lesson:

There are three types of morphs: dominate, co-dominate and recessive. Genes come in pairs, need to throw that out there at the start.

Dominate morphs are those that don't have a proven super form, such as the spider and pinstripe. With these morphs it is impossible to tell by looking at them if they carry two copies of the morph gene. Animals that carry two copies are considered homozygous and all babies produced will carry one copy of the gene. If you have a homozygous version of a spider all of the babies will be spiders.

Co-dominates are like the dominates but you can visually see a difference between the homozygous animals (supers) and the ones that only carry one copy of the gene (this is technically considered heterozygous I believe). So you can visually see a difference between a pastel and super pastel. Pastels only have one copy of the pastel gene and super pastels have both copies. Super pastels when breed to a normal produce 100% pastels.

Now recessive morphs are a lot like the co-dominate morphs, but the heterozygous (het) form looks like a normal. There are very few morphs that you can tell by looking at them what they are het for. Het Red Axanthic come to mind here. The homozygous version of the morph is the one you can see, like the pieds and albinos.

I hope that makes sense, everyone else please correct me if I am wrong.