Allright this is something I 've been wondering since I've been seeing so many wild type geckos being sold on the classifieds that are het for RAPTOR. The way I understand it is that for a het to het cross to yield raptors it isn't just a 25% chance. Wouldn't you have to be lucky enough for each of the traits that compose a RAPTOR to express themselves? Hopefully I made my question clear enough
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Het Raptor Questions
leoprdfrog
May 27, 2006 10:34 PM
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balloonzforu
May 28, 2006 12:08 AM
You mean crossing two hets that look like this would have a better chance. Is that what you are saying.
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leoprdfrog
May 28, 2006 04:57 PM
I meant ones that don't display any of the rescessive traits that compose the RAPTOR morph. Wouldn't a het x het cross to successfully yield a RAPTOR you would have to get lucky enough for each of the recessed traits to exrpess themselves?
Paul Hollander
May 30, 2006 01:55 PM
Off the top of my head, I don't recall how many recessive mutants are combined in the RAPTOR. But if a RAPTOR is bred to a normal and two of the babies are mated, each egg has a (1/4)^n chance (1/4 to the nth power) of producing a RAPTOR. Where n is the number of recessive mutants. So if there are two recessive mutants, then the odds are (1/4)^2 = 1/16. Three recessive mutants = (1/4)^3 = 1/64. Four recessive mutants = (1/4)^4 = 1/256. And so on.
Paul Hollander
leoprdfrog
May 30, 2006 04:08 PM
Okay thats exactly what I thought but I wanted to make sure I had the corret understanding of the raptor morph.
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