SUPERS????????
that question has bin asked here many times before,,,,
maybe i will know the end of the season,,,,
thanks for looking
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toine plompen,,,holland
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Arabesque X Arabesque,,,let,s make some?
toine
Dec 13, 2006 03:45 PM
Replies (3)
AndreasE
Dec 13, 2006 04:47 PM
I don't think there is a super arabesque form. I my last litter from arab.x arab. I still had three normal looking ones.The colors were amazing on the arabesques though.
Anyway I thought you wanted to make hypo arabesques? what happened?
jayf
Dec 13, 2006 06:27 PM
Not sure on the specifics of your breeding, but if you were breeding heterozygous arabesque to a heterozygous arabesque, then you should expect normals.
In fact 25% of the litter should statistically be normals. At the same time 25% of them should be supers(homozygous).
At this point nothing is proven. There are two ways to prove out the genetics ...
1. You have some visually different individuals in the litter from your arabesque x arabesque breeding. You should then take that individual and breed it to a normal wild type. If the result of that litter is ALL (100%) arabesques (they would all be heterozygous) then you have proven the trait to be co-dominant.
2. You have no visually different individuals in the litter from your arabesque x arabesque breeding. You breed some of the offspring to a normal wild type boa and hopefully you picked one that happened to be homozygous. If the resulting litter is half arabesque half normal, you picked a heterozygous arabesque from the first litter and wasted some time. If the resulting litter is 100% arabesque (they would be heterozygous) then you have proven the trait to be dominant.
I would like to be involved in this personally, but will probably not be able to work with arabesques hands on until I am sucessful with my hypos. That probably wont be for another 2 years so I have to imagine that the genetics will be proven by then.
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- Jason F.
sun_king
Dec 14, 2006 07:00 AM
Those will be some awesome babies. Next year or the year after I plan on breeding my het alb arabesques together. Are those het alb as well. I wish you the best. The ones Steve Hammond produced where incredible.....
Joe
