As my first venture into breeding, I plan on breeding my amel male with my snow female; no hets involved. What type offspring can I expect?
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Breeding Question
JMo
Nov 01, 2008 09:05 AM
Replies (5)
oldworldlife
Nov 01, 2008 12:41 PM
They will be 100% amel, het for anery
tspuckler
Nov 01, 2008 01:06 PM
Yep, you'd be looking at all amels (if the parents aren't hets) that are 100% het for anery.
Tim
Third Eye
dallan
Nov 04, 2008 10:36 PM
they are right but you never know what may be hiding in there.
I breed a normal motley to a candycane and found that the motley was het for snow.found that the candycane was het for motley and anery. so you never know
HerpZillA
Nov 05, 2008 11:04 PM
>>they are right but you never know what may be hiding in there.
>>I breed a normal motley to a candycane and found that the motley was het for snow.found that the candycane was het for motley and anery. so you never know
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guyergenetics
Nov 06, 2008 10:23 AM
Everybody is right that you should expect 100% amel babies het anery out of that pairing.
But with corns, EXPECT surprises.
I'll never forget my first breeding years ago. I was pairing a male snow to a female hypo, because that was all I had at that time and was just wanting to see if I could do it. I expected 100% normal babies that would be het for amel, anery, and hypo. The first egg to pip was an anery. I remember looking at that snake head poking out of the egg thinking "You're not supposed to be in there." As more eggs pipped I ended up with a combination of normals, anerys, hypos, and ghosts. Come to find out that the snow male was het hypo and the female hypo was het anery. Now I've bred one of the normal daughters from that pairing to a male striped motley wanting to start a two generation process of working the striped motley 1nto some of the morphs. A lot of the babies came out motley patterned. So that tells me that of the grandparents, the original snow-hypo pairing, ONE of those snakes is also het motley. I don't know which one though...yet.
Sorry for being long winded but I wanted to drive the point home to a new breeder that you really don't know for sure what you're going to get until the eggs hatch. Expect surprises.
Some babies from the original pairing I talked about. These are all siblings from the same clutch.
