I want to throw this out for the more experienced breeders to look at, and offer advice about/poke holes into (lol). I think I’ve locked down a project schedule to get the result I want, but the complicating factor is the weird sex inheritance in coral glows/bananas. In order to get the morph combo I’m aiming for, I need to be clear on how this inheritance works.

So to recap my understanding, the trait of cg/banana is, for lack of a better term, sex-linked. Males produced from a female will continue to throw more females, but if they throw a male, that male will put out predominately male offspring. That male is often referred to as a male maker.

Now this bit is where it gets tricky. I assume, unless someone wants to correct me, that this inheritance pattern continues into combos, ie a male maker who is het pied when paired with a pied female will turn out male cg/b hets and cg/b pieds, while the normal hets and pieds in the clutch can be a mix of either gender.

I know the general rule is “less expensive female to more expensive male” but in order to pull off the end result I want, I might have to break it. What I would like to have is an enchi cinnamon banana pied. What I have currently is a female cinnamon pinstripe. My plan is as follows, assuming the odds gods are benevolent:

Male maker cg/b het pied x enchi pied female = cg/b enchi pied male
Cg/b enchi pied male x cinnamon pinstripe female = cg/b echi cinnamon het pied male (possibly with added pinstripe)
Cg/b echi cinnamon het pied male goes back to the first enchi pied female, and fingers crossed, we get the enchi cinnamon cg/b pied (with a couple bonus add on options like pinstripe or super enchi).

Feel free to start punching the holes now XD