Yes I guess I was confused about the yb male to mom (highway) that would produce 50% hets no? I thought that's what you meant.

I see where you're going and I belive you're spot on to make batmans quick but I have some crazy visual females he will go to over the next few seasons and hopefully start putting other genetics into batmans or spotnose clowns. So not too much of a hurry or need to hit batmans with the highway. Would love to be able to produce highy/ivorys still and possibly get clown in there at the same time. I started the highway project idea to get something going other then clowns but that didn't last long lol. Ivory and Leo mix so well and the idea of producing a highway clown is really cool to me.

You did get me thinking though. What do you think about this? (Leaving spotnose and Leo out just to type less lol)

Batman x ivory = yb 100% het, will hold all females and best male

Highway x batman = yb/gravel 100% het, will hold all females

At the same time I can continue to produce 100% hets from the batman x highway while I work on raising the first batch of hets.

Then use the yb 100% male from the Ivory clutch to prove out the genetics of the 100% het females from the highway clutch. I think the odds of an ivory or highway from this are like 20% and a ivory or highway clown are like 5%. Sure I may not hit and the 66% hets would be byproduct but I can produce highway and Ivory from this and also eventually will hit clown in either highway or ivory by just keeping the hets breeding. Once I ID the clutch genetics it should be straight forward to up the highway and Ivory %