>>I picked up a female tangerine Honduran a few days ago ... What type of male should I pair her with?



Well, if you could find a triple homozygous (amel, anery and hypo) male, all the babies would be at a minimum triple hets, so you'd have a great group that could produce almost all the morphs in the future. AND by using a triple-homo you'd know immediately if your female's het for any of those morphs. Use a male that's simply het for some of the morphs and you'll not necessarily get babies proving anything...but the absence of morph babies won't prove anything either.



Also, if you get a premium male like that i'd recommend you get at least several more females. An ideal breeding group is maybe 2.4 to 2.6, with the second male perhaps being a less useful genotype but available as backup should something happen to your primary male. That way you don't run the risk of having 4-6 females go to waste for want of a mate.

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• Tangerine Honduran - bendig, Tue May 10 10:56:28 2011
• RE: Tangerine Honduran - DMong, Tue May 10 13:35:54 2011
• RE: Tangerine Honduran - bendig, Tue May 10 16:48:43 2011
• Cool! n/p - DMong, Tue May 10 17:10:08 2011
• RE: Tangerine Honduran - rtdunham, Tue May 10 17:32:00 2011
• RE: Tangerine Honduran - DMong, Tue May 10 22:56:28 2011
• Tangerine Honduran - JYohe, Tue May 10 18:47:13 2011
• RE: Tangerine Honduran - DMong, Tue May 10 22:59:02 2011
• RE: Tangerine Honduran - rtdunham, Tue May 10 17:28:50 2011
• Agreed! - RG, Wed May 11 10:17:17 2011