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Can someone explain to me what exactly is the diffecene with line bred and genetic? What happens if you combined the two togther, and how is you get line bred from two line bred ifs its not the parents passing it to their siblings?
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1.3.0 Leopard Geckos
2 Blizzard females, pair of albino trempors male is tangerine
Turtles
1.0.0 Common snapping turtle
0.1.0 Belize slider
0.1.0 Egyptian tortoise
0.0.1 blackknobbed sawback
0.0.1 stripeneck musk
0.0.1 nothern DBT

http://www.newenglandreptile.com/genetics_intro.html

Maybe this will help:

1. Line breeding is something you DO. E.g. breeding son back to mother to try to bring out a particular trait. We sometimes say a trait has been "selectively bred", when referring to a trait like tangerine. Line bred means gecko incest, breeding sons or daughters back to parents, or brothers to sisters. For selectively bred traits, yes the characteristics are encoded on the genes, but it is not a sure thing- just like two attractive people will sometimes have an ugly child, and vice versa. You can guess what the child might look like, and it will probably have some characteristics of either parent, but there are no guarantees, you really don't know how it will look until it grows up. In geckos, selectively bred traits include colors like melanistic, tangerine, snow and high yellow, and hypomelanism, and carrot tail. So if you breed two hypos together, you will most likely get a hypo but there is a possibility that you won't get a hypo at all, and also the possibility you may get a super hypo.

2. When you say "genetic", I am guessing you might actually be referring to "recessive", meaning a recessive genetic trait. A recessive genetic trait is something like blue eyes, where if both parents have blue eyes you are guaranteed the kid will have blue eyes. Recessive genetic traits include the three genetic strains of albinism, blizzard, and patternless. If you breed two Blizzards together, you will ALWAYS get blizzards.

I think that was what you wanted to know, hope that helped.
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Sarah Stettler aka Starling
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Thansk that what I needed to know , so with what you said in mind what exactly happen when something like a albino bred to a SHCT? Since its not DH I really want to figure this out I guess if you bred a leo with from a SCHT dad and a blizzard mom to a albino its only a DH for albino and blizzard? Just thinking of some examples.
Xavier
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1.3.0 Leopard Geckos
2 Blizzard females, pair of albino trempors male is tangerine
Turtles
1.0.0 Common snapping turtle
0.1.0 Belize slider
0.1.0 Egyptian tortoise
0.0.1 blackknobbed sawback
0.0.1 stripeneck musk
0.0.1 nothern DBT