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I have a question about breeding. I have a pastel salmon and want to produce ghosts. How would I go about doing so? If I breed an ghost to her will there be any ghosts in the litter. What about an anery? Just another thought what would I get if I breed an albino to her.

That will be a long term project but a very fun one for sure!
You would have to breed an Anery or a Ghost to the Hypo and then raise those babies up and breed them to each other...to then be able to have a chance at producing Ghosts....I don't know the odds...but there is a chance no Ghosts would be produced. If you are starting with babies and you do not purchase any others...it would be about a 7 year project.
Hope this helps. Andy

I have a question about breeding. I have a pastel salmon and want to produce ghosts. How would I go about doing so? If I breed an ghost to her will there be any ghosts in the litter. What about an anery? Just another thought what would I get if I breed an albino to her.
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You can't get there with one breeding, by definition a ghost is a anery/hypo(salmon) which means each parent must supply one anery gene and at least one of the parents must also supply a hypo gene. If you bred her to an anery (or ghost), saved back either a pair with at least one being a hypo. Or saved back a female hypo to breed back to the father. Then you could/should get some ghosts. Assuming your female was ready to go this year, it would take at least 4 or 5 years probably longer to produce Ghosts.

I would recommend buying what you want (and can afford) withbthe genetics to produce the babies you want. Pairings thatwill produce at least some ghosts:

het anery x hypo het anery
het anery x ghost
het anery x super ghost (or homozygous hypo/anery)

anery x hypo het anery
anery x ghost
anery x super ghost

hypo het anery x hypo het anery
hypo het anery x ghost
hypo het anery x super ghost

ghost x ghost
ghost x super ghost

super ghost x super ghost

>>I have a question about breeding. I have a pastel salmon and want to produce ghosts. How would I go about doing so? If I breed an ghost to her will there be any ghosts in the litter. What about an anery? Just another thought what would I get if I breed an albino to her.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
10.22 BRB
10.15 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Thanks for the info. I think im just going to get another salmon and try to produce some killer salmons. I had one more question what would I get if I breed a albino to her?

If the Pastel passes 50% and the salmon is heterozygous then:
Pastel Salmons, Pastels, Salmons and normals all het albino.

Or, if the pastel is dominant, then:
Pastel Salmons, and Pastels all het albino

Or, if the Salmon is homozygous then:
Pastel Salmons and Salmons all het albino.

Or (last one) if the pastel is dominant AND the salmon is homozygous then:
Pastel Salmons het albino.

Any way you slice it, unless you want to produce pastels/hypos het for albino for future projects, not a great match.

IMO, make killer salmons with what you have or expand with additional projects.

>>Thanks for the info. I think im just going to get another salmon and try to produce some killer salmons. I had one more question what would I get if I breed a albino to her?
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
10.22 BRB
10.15 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Pastels are Polygenic....one way I know to explain is the pastel trait is like rungs on a ladder...(I hope I spelled that right)...But when you breed a Pastel to a normal or non-pastel...I seriously doubt you would get even 50% pastels....Unless the rungs were present but somehow not being visually expressed. The Pastel trait is built by selective breeding...like putting on layers of paint on a project...through many breedings the animals get refined.
You can breed for colors or no colors...but Pastel just means the reduction in Black melanin expressed....The quality of those animals and ability is another story.
Andy
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if you get another salmon and you breed them you won't just get slammin' salmons, you would be making some super salmons, salmons, and normals. Making super salmons would be great don't you think? (a super salmon has salmon on both pairs of the salmon gene, they would be homozygous for salmon)

Caden