Reptile & Amphibian Forums

If I breed a lemon pastel 50% het for pied with a normal female, what will the outcome be?
25% normals, 25% lemon pastels, 25% het lemon pastels, and 25% het pied?
lol
Excuse me I'm new to the morphs, but not balls.
Thanks for the help!

lemon pastel 50% probability het for pied X normal female -->
1/2 lemon pastel (pastel mutant gene paired with a normal gene)
1/2 normal

Pastel is a codominant mutant gene. The lemon pastel sire is heterozygous because he has a pastel mutant gene paired with a normal gene. There is no such thing as a het pastel that looks normal.

The expectation is that half the babies get the sire's pastel mutant gene and the other half of the babies get the sire's normal gene. The normal female has a pair of normal genes and gives one to each baby.

Disclaimer: These are the expected results. The actual results may or may not be the same as the expected results.

Probably none of the babies is het pied. If you are concerned, mate the male to a pied or het pied female and test him to see whether he actually is het pied.

Paul Hollander

I would say going by the odds you would get the following:

25% Normal- non gene carring
25% Normal Lemon Pastel- Will be visible
25% het pied- normal looking, must be breed to prove it is a het.
25% Lemon Pastel het pied- visible yellow but must be breed to prove het.

The perivous poster said that you mostlikely would not get any het pied this is not true according to the genetics ruffly 50% of your babies should be hets.

Tips for het breeding:

Het x normal- 50% hets, 50% normal
Het x Het- 25% normals, 50% hets (look like normals but carry the gene), 25% visible genes (pied, clown, ext)These are refered to 66% hets because 2/3's of the normal looking babies are gene carriers the 25% that is visible you can tell have the gene.
Het x Visible gene carrier- 50% hets, 50% Visible gene carriers
Visible gene carrier x Visible gene carrier- 100% Visible gene carrier (We all want theses!!!)

Hets that are made from Het to het breeding will need to be proven to find the normals from the hets but when breed to a visible gene carried all babies will have the gene.

Let me know if this helps.
matt

sorry i didn't see that the pastel was a 50% het, thought it was a 100% het. You should breed it to a 100% het or pied to find out if it is a gene carrier.

matt