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If I breed my Bloodred het pewter to my Blizzard het Anery A I would get?????? All normals het Amel,Bloodred,charcoal....?
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CD
Corns(Adults)
1.0 Snow ZigZag
1.0 Bloodred het Pewter
0.1 Banded Motley het Amel
0.1 Blizzard het Anery A
Corns(Sub-adult)
1.0 Anerythristic

You would get half normals het charcoal,blood,amel,and 50% het anery A, and half Charcoals het blood, amel,and 50% het Anery A.
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Arlon Delorge
Classic Constrictors

Thats what I thought but I was using a genetics calculator and depending on what I select I got different answers....
Thanks
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Corns(Adults)
1.0 Snow ZigZag
1.0 Bloodred het Pewter
0.1 Banded Motley het Amel
0.1 Blizzard het Anery A
Corns(Sub-adult)
1.0 Anerythristic

>>You would get half normals het charcoal,blood,amel,and 50% het anery A, and half Charcoals het blood, amel,and 50% het Anery A.
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>>Arlon Delorge
>>Classic Constrictors

I'm no expert, but bloodred is not hetable. I believe they have proven the diffusion gene to be 1 gene? I forget. But I'm sure we will hear more now.
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Thanks for reading.
Big Tom

www.herpzilla.com

Yes, bloodred is "hetable" (if that's a word).

You can breed a bloodred to a normal, and the babies will be het for the episkiastism that accounts for the bloodred's pattern mutation. They will also likely be more red than the average "normal" corn out there.

If you then breed the babies back to one another, you will expect to get roughly 50% episkiastic animals (those showing the bloodred pattern), which may or may not inherit the red coloration enough to call them bloodreds.

There are the two separate issues going on...a pattern mutation produced by simple genetics, and a coloration issue being produced by line breeding. You have to take both parts into account.
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Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742

I knew you would post if you were around. I recall the long loooooong threads on bloods, and that word "episkiastism".

Love that word lol. But,,, and I am not sure,, if you out cross the bloodred, yes they will be het for episkiastism. But I think of a bloodred color as a line bred morph. It takes generations to get some of them. So you will not be back at a bloodred, 25% with 2 hets, but 25% diffused and maybe those could? be the lucky corns to look more like a bloodred. But it is not 100%, like the diffused part.

I had my first corn, a very nice female bloodred, bred to a corn that was thought to be diffused. Babies were all over the place with color. Some black spotted bellies, some clear, some silver sides, some more normal.

So, 1 part episkiastism, is hetable. I do not see the other as episkiastism.

Amel hetable
Miami not hetable
Creamcicle not hetable
anery hetable.

I could be wrong, I'm told that daily!
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Thanks for reading.
Big Tom

www.herpzilla.com