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    Hey all-

    I have a few miscellaeneous questions.

    1. What is the average clutch size for BPs?

    2. What breedings will give the quickest results? (i.e. If Normals x Pastels are an option.)
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    Re: A few questions...

    Quote Originally Posted by Reptilian
    Hey all-

    I have a few miscellaeneous questions.

    1. What is the average clutch size for BPs?

    2. What breedings will give the quickest results? (i.e. If Normals x Pastels are an option.)
    1. Anywhere from a 3-4 to over a dozen eggs, depending on the female's weight, health, diet, calcium and luck.

    2. If you are talking about producing morphs, any normal to dominant or co-dom breeding will produce 50% of the morph with the first breeding. Or a reccessive visual morph to a het of the same morph will produce the same 50% morph/50% hets. Any reccessive morph bred to a normal will produce all hets, which would then need to be bred to a visual or homozygous form of the same morph to produce any visual morphs yourself.
    What are these mojavas I keep hearing so much about?

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    Re: A few questions...

    average is between 4 and 6 eggs can be less and can be WAY more.

    results? it all depends on what you want them to be. if you are looking for pastels a super pastel to a normal will give you all pastels. you have to breed what you want to produce and what is in your budget


    if you cant afford to take care of it, dont get it

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    Re: A few questions...

    1. Average clutch size is about 6 eggs, per the Barker's book. Again, that number doesn't mean much because the number of eggs a female produces actually depends on a lot of other factors including but not limited to genetics, age, size, etc.

    2. I think you are trying to ask "What traits will produce visible morphs right away when one of the parents are normal?" If thats what you meant, yes, a co-dominant trait like a pastel should give you visible offspring in the first clutch.

    Deal with the morphs you like the best though, regardless of long its going to take. If you breed pastels when you REALLY just want a spider or an albino, save your money until you can get what you want - nothing is worse than feeding and cleaning poop up after an animal you don't really want to be working with.
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    Re: A few questions...

    Quote Originally Posted by elevatethis
    2. I think you are trying to ask "What traits will produce visible morphs right away when one of the parents are normal?" If thats what you meant, yes, a co-dominant trait like a pastel should give you visible offspring in the first clutch.

    Deal with the morphs you like the best though, regardless of long its going to take. If you breed pastels when you REALLY just want a spider or an albino, save your money until you can get what you want - nothing is worse than feeding and cleaning poop up after an animal you don't really want to be working with.
    What traits are considered co-dominant then? Pastel is obvious one of them.

    I agree completely with saving up to buy what you want. Your right there is nothing worse then cleaning up after something you don't really want to be working with.
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    Re: A few questions...

    Quote Originally Posted by Reptilian
    What traits are considered co-dominant then? Pastel is obvious one of them.

    I agree completely with saving up to buy what you want. Your right there is nothing worse then cleaning up after something you don't really want to be working with.
    Pastel, spider, cinny, black pastel, mojave, lesser platty, yellow belly, fire I believe[...] there are too many.
    What are these mojavas I keep hearing so much about?

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