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Captive hatched oddball?

kdreptiles Nov 10, 2010 06:45 AM

I put this on the health and breeding page, but then I saw that it wasn't very active.
I have this little guy who was sold to me back in 2007 as a captive hatched normal. The breeder told me he was 9 months in feb. 2007 when I got him, so he is about 4 years old. He is small, weighing only about 1050g. His color is what gets to me though. The flash didn't make him look more yellow in the pic below, that's seriously what he looks like in person.
I don't plan on breeding any time soon, but if I do in the future, is it worth it to try to see if his color/pattern is genetic? Should I breed him to another normal, pastel, or?

Replies (4)

zippy00_99 Nov 10, 2010 09:39 AM

I would breed him to a pastel, and then when one of the females gets to a breedable size (pastel OR normal) breed him back to her and just see what happens. I believe that is what Exotics by Nature did with their puzzle gene. They basically skipped the normal puzzle and went right to the pastel puzzle. I don't see anything that looks dom/co-dom so...but I could aslo be wrong...thats the major attraction to "dinkers"

BAM_Reptiles Nov 10, 2010 09:51 AM

looks normal to me
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kdreptiles Nov 10, 2010 01:30 PM

Lol I wasn't saying he was a morph, I was just wanting an opinion on if it's worth breeding him to see if his light color and pattern slightly affect how the babies turn out (not enough to consider it a morph)
Thanks to the first reply though.

BAM_Reptiles Nov 10, 2010 01:38 PM

theres lots of variability in normals, as with most things breeding it will generally result with some type of the appearance passed down. same as you probably look similar to your parents and they to theirs
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