I was only using 4 eggs as a scenario, but admittedly (these guys are known for smallish eggs and large clutches of 15-25) I did not know they laid such large clutches. With that type of egg yield I would be shocked for him not to get hypos, very shocked.



Even a het to het breeding should throw more then a couple hypos with such a large egg yield.



As you stated he should just buy a hypo, but he may like the "reg" ones that have the potential to throw hypos, that does make sense to me as even "reg" deppei are quite beautiful.





>>I would have to agree with the above post in that with regards to genetics and simple recessive genes as this one is you could get unlucky enough to have an entire clutch of non-visual (heterozygouz) hypo-melanistic hatchlings however even with lets say a small clutch of 8-12 the odds are against that happening. I have been breeding these guys since the gene first showed up in my collection with an old legally obtained w/c male and his daughter, (It took me a year or two to isolate the origins of the trait) . It is simple recessive and seems to also involve some degree of pattern abnormality. Out of the 40 or so that I hatched out this year there is a wide range of color, degree of hypo-melanism, and pattern aberancy. Go check them out at John S's table in daytona in a couple of weeks.

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>>If you breed your male to a het female you will most likely get some visually hypo offspring. Why not get a hypo female and produce an entire clutch of hypos!

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>>here is an image of a pair of F2's from the original founder group. Note the dramatic variation even among siblings.........typical deppei

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