Quote Originally Posted by Pythonfriend View Post
do female makers exist? ive never heared about banana/CG males that mostly produce female banana/CG. i only know there are male-makers.

also i think the mechanism is not understood at all, like, how is it even genetically possible? for a while i believed it has to do with the gender determining chromosomes, the "W" and "Z" chromosome, but that idea did lead to contradictions and had to go.

its annoying that we dont seem to be able to figure it out. if you get a male hatchling from a female banana/CG, which is the offspring of a male-maker male, will it be another male maker? do we know if it has to do with epigenetics, or can we rule it out?

i think its the biggest mystery in BP breeding right now.
yes female maker exist, it was all that existed for a long time, until someone actually popped out a male, then the male maker explosion happened. As far as the mechanics, honestly no one has a complete answer I have read and it baffles me also. Everyone wants to yell out it's sex linked, but what I listed above is not the mechanics of something sex linked, but sex obviously plays a factor in some unknown way. Add it to the list of terms we use wrong.

Quote Originally Posted by clarky_man View Post
So is this correct?

If a male banana/coral glow (male maker) sires a clutch. The male banana/coral glow would be male makers, female banana/coral glow would produce normal ratios.

If a male banana/coral glow (female maker) sires a clutch. Same as before the male banana/coral glow would be male makers and female banana/coral glow produce normal ratios.

If a normal sires a clutch with a female banana/coral glow there would be normal ratios the male banana/coral glow would be female makers and female would produce normal ratios.

So every male banana/coral glow is either be a male or female maker and no female banana/coral glows are makers.

What happens if you breed banana x banana?
Yes all that is correct. Only a few super bananas have been made, I haven't heard an update about their breeding records. I don't know if there has been any more information since Mike posted this, but he has a theory on how the supers will work in this video...