"I have a Patternless Tremper Albino Het for Blazing Blizzard female and Midnight Blizzard and Eclispe eye that I bought gravid. I was told she was bred to a Blazing Blizzard Male. She has laid 4 clutches and all have hatched. The babies look normal. What are they het for? Is it Patternless Tremper Albino and Blazing Blizzard or what."



Okay, the patternless Tremper albino het for blazing blizzard should just be called: petternless tremper albino het blizzard. He is already expressing the albino gene so there is no need to list him as being het for it.

Im confused about the midnight blizzard and eclipse eye part. Do you mean you have a midnight blizzard with solid black eyes or you have a midnight blizzard AND an eclipse? If it was a midnight blizzard eclipse (which I will just call eclipse blizzard because "midnight" isnt a truely genetic morph. It is caused by really low incubation temperatures and low rearing temperatures. Ever wonder why all "midnights" are female? this is similar to "chocolate" albinos...). As I was saying, if its a blizzard eclipse bred to a blazing blizzard you should get blizzard babies which are het for which ever albino was used to make the father "blazing" and het for eclipse. Even though there are trait-linkage problems with the blazing blizzard morph, that would not effect your babies because both the parents were pure homozygous blizzards. I also dont understand the last part of that question.



"Also I have some Blizzards and I want to breed them. I haven't read much on them. Like how were they made? was a Albino involved or the Patternless? If so do I need one of those to breed to them or can blizzards be bred together and produce Blizzards? What about producing the Blazing Blizzard. What do I need to produce them?"



How are blizzards "made" ? Its a gene that blocks pigmentation... If the gecko is homozygous for the blizzard gene it is a blizzard. The blizzard gene is a gene that blocks color and pattern. It was not "made" using other genes...

Pure homozygous blizzards breed true, just like pure homozygous animals of any other gene... To produce blazing blizzards you combine both the albino and blizzard trait in one animal. The result is a purer white color with brownish to redish eyes. First you breed an albino to a blizzard to get double hets. Then you breed the double hets togeather and hope the genes line up perfectly to produce an albino blizzard. The normal equation says 1 in 16 chance but its more like 1 in 100 due to trait-linkage problems with the tremper and bell genes. Basically the genes for bell, tremper, and blizzard are so close to eachother on the DNA strand that during the splitting of the DNA to form a sex cell, they split in a specific way like 99% of the time. This causes the recessive genes to be less likely to be expressed. That also explains why you see alot of 66% het blazing blizzards for sale on the internet.





"My Super Hypos were bred to a LV Albino Male. I realize that the babies are normals het for RW Albino but what could I bred to them when they grow up to make something cool? Most of babies are turning out to look Hypo ect, which is cool. I just wondered which way I should go to produce something different next year from them"



Super hypo is not a recessive trait. It is polygenetic. Poly = many genetic = caused by genes. Polygenetic= CAused by many genes. Think of it as on and off switches. There are hundreds of them connected randomly to hundreds of bulbs and one or two turns all the bulbs off, some turn 1 bulb off, some turn 5 bulbs off, some turn 34 bulbs off, etc. So if you randomly flick say 50 switches you will get a random combination of bulbs turned on and off. Polygenetic traits work the same way. If they are outbred they will still be expressed in some degree due to the number of genes involved and the way they work. That would cause a reduction of dark pigment in the first outbred generation, but not a full blown super hypo trait. If you bred them togeather you would get 50% LV albino hypos, 25% hypo-ish normals and 25% hypo-ish het albinos.
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