Quote Originally Posted by t-Roy View Post
Great info. Thank you for posting it to help newbies like me.

So I was hoping to find my answers here in this section but I didn't. So this is what Im curious about related to this subject:

%50 x %50
%50 x %66
%50 x %100

%66 x %66,
%66 x %100

Are they possible hets with just percentage that have to be mathematically figured out?


And I would logically assume that a visual morph x with any % het would make %100 het, if not, visual morph.

Please enlighten me. Thank you.
All of the pairings that you mentioned apart from the 100% het involved breedings would have to be considered normal offspring.
You can't breed 2 50% together and produce all normal looking babies and still consider them possible hets in regards to the clutch.
You will need further breeding trials to establish if any of the parents are in fact heterozygous animals.
50% simply means that one parent was het.
66% means that both parents were het but the baby is normal in appearance.
Since if you had 4 eggs, you have a 1 in 4 chance of producing a homozygous animal. Leaving you with 3 eggs, all normal appearing and a 2 out of 3 chance for the gene to have passed on. (66%)
Do yourself a favour and get yourself a 100% het for the trait if you want to start proving out possible hets.
Better yet, if all of the possible hets are for the same morph then buy the visual homozygous animal and have a 50% chance at producing visual morphs if the parent turns out to be a het.
-Steven