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RE: Yellow female...

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Posted by: Gregg_M_Madden at Mon Nov 17 14:26:03 2014  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Gregg_M_Madden ]  
   

In regards to that yellow female, I would pair her up with the lightest male possible. Even a nice green or greenish male if you have one. That would be my first choices if I did not have a yellow male.

I do not think breeding an axanthic male to that yellow female will do anything for either project. It would actually be counter productive. To me it would not make sense to breed the axanthic gene into a hyper-xanthic animal. Subsequent to that, I would also breed her to a stock normal male to see if the yellow overtakes dark coloration like it does in the lemon ghost morph in westerns.

And just to touch on the creating hets thing one last time. My way of thinking is not naïve. It is how genetic inheritance is figured out and proven. If you have the animals available, it is never a waste to outcross. In your case you did not have the available breedable females to do it. That is completely understandable. It is something that should not be dismissed though. This is your project Frank. You should be the one who proves the inheritance before anyone else can.


   

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