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a male breeding a female 100% in the first 12 hours.

I have been introducing an albino male to a female (both het anery) for a couple weeks now and they have hooked up a few times now. One night I accidentally put him into the wrong container .. I just glanced quick and it was kindof dark - I didn't want to disturb them.

Anyways they may have hooked up and the female looks fatter .. could she just be ovulating and may not be fertilized yet? They were only together overnight until I noticed.

Anyways the problem is that the pairing was Albino(het-anery) x Het-hypo ... so I would pretty much get het-albinos (50% het-hypo & 50% het anery) .. kindof useless compared to the very nice hypos she could have produced.

This female has never bred but is almost 800g .. she was cooled and I know she "should" be ready. I put in a hypo male about 4 days later and she showed no interest. Could this be because she is pregnant already? Looks like I will have to wait and see but I will keep trying with a hypo male. Either way if the babies are possible hets they are a gamble so I don't feel that its too bad to mix things up here. If I get hypos I at least know who their father was right..

It only takes a couple minutes.I would say she is probably ovulating but if she isn't excepting the hypo male (are you 100% sure its a he on the hypo?)maybe she is already gravid.
I would just keep putting the hypo male on her and atleast you will know who was the father.
I made a mistake this year and will have some mystery hets for sure.I have a great looking pinner hypo female (not known to be het for anything) and I was putting a anery het hypo on her.I mixed up two males and also put her in with a amel het hypo..so,I am sure I will have some hypos in the clutch but I won't know if they are het amel or anery?and the double hets will only be het hypo since I don't know who the father is?Oh well,live and learn.

L8r Shannon