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A buddy of mine bred a pastel male to a het-albino female in 05, in 06 he exclusively bred an albino male to the same Het-Albino female and hatched a pastel along side Albinos and hets in the same clutch!!!
Question is how common is it for females to retain sperm from a previous breeding? One can only imagine how many possible hets are out there?
Brian A.
A guy around where I live had a ghost female produce more ghost from apparent retained sperm from the year before after breeding it to a pastel that year (this was before many pastel's carried the ghost gene).
Unfortunately in addition to the good surprise possible hets there are the bad surprise ones like those produced by that het albino female bred to the albino. How do you know the normals weren’t fathered by the pastel male just like the pastel baby rather than the albino male?
That is the point, if sperm can be retained from previous year breedings and show up the following year as a co-dom, pastel in this case, one can only imagine how many hets and possible hets are floating around from prior year recessive breedings!
I don't think this happens often BUT cannot be overlooked either!
Brian A.
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