Hey guys I wanted to talk about the Jelly mutation for a little bit and had some questions/observations. I remember Zenny saying before that he believed that if you breed a Jelly (T- x PB) to a normal het for nothing Florida king the babies would ideally be split 50/50 het PB and T-. None would be het for both traits... It just hit me while setting up eggs that my jelly female just laid (from a jelly male) that when I did this breeding last year I got ALL JELLYIES from the clutch... This does not make sense if a Jelly truly only passes on one of their genes (pb OR t Negative) I should have gotten PBs T Negs and Jellys not all Jellys (unless the odds were messing with me). should have been 25% PB 25%T Neg P Jelly and i got 100% Jelly. I know Rainer has done this breeding before so I want to see what he thinks as well as Zenny and whoever else has done a breeding like this before. I am leaning towards the fact that the odds might have just been screwey but with 8 eggs and only half of them theoretically being jellys, the other half should have had PBs and T Negs. Again it just hit me that that did not make sense (when they hatched I was like ooooooohhhhhh Jellies! haha and was not thinking wait why did this happen ) I know I have seen Jellies from Rainer's stock that are from Jelly x Jelly but ONLY Jellies from that breeding, never a T Neg or PB (that I can remember) If a Jelly only passes on T Neg or PB then why do you get all Jellys when you breed Jelly x Jelly.



Sorry for the long rant but I wanted to see what you all think.



Jeremy Thompson

Captive Born Investments Inc.

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