Hi, i was reading your post down below about the jungles from Mark Hauge. I am fairly new to boas, ive been having a few for a few years but never really got deep into genetics. Could you please explain to me what you mean by F2's and F3's and what are the advantages and disadvantages of these "traits." Thanks for your time and anyone else who wants to chime in is welcome to do so. Thanks in adavance.
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0.2 normal ball pythons
0.2 normal Redtail boa
1.1 100% Het Albino Redtail boa
1.1 Bearded Dragon
0.1 GF Eryn (WC)
0.1 Brindle Boxer (Marley)
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evercraig190
May 30, 2007 02:33 PM
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ChrisGilbert
May 30, 2007 02:37 PM
F1, F2, F3, etc. refer to fillial generations. The original breeding pair are generation P, this is for a new line. Their offspring are F1. If you breed two related F1s from the same parents (born in the same litter or later on) together, then they are F2 and so on.
If you get an F1 from one source and an F1 from another source, totally unrelated, then their offspring are once again F1.
The only time these notations really come into play with captive reptiles are with rare lines or new mutations for records.
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rainbowsrus
May 30, 2007 03:20 PM
Yeah, what he said 
And also is usefull when successive gens hve been bred for specific traits. In my Jungle case it points out these guys have been jungle to jungle for two gens already and IMO VERY impressive jungles at that!! With any sucessive gen breeding program, when you select two babies for a look, the offspring will more and less have that look as well. Take the better of those babies and breed them and you've typically raised the average look and get even more extreme looking babies. OF COURSE, as with any line breeding project, somewhere there needs to be an infusion of unrelated blood or the line will become to inbred and could develop problems. Very easy to do with dominant traits!!
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Thanks,
Dave Colling
www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
21.29 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders 
lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats 
