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So in my last clutches of eggs was having REALLY bad luck, a couple 2 year old breeders gave me a clutch of infertile eggs after fertile clutch(es), I guessed that I had bred the male too frequently (was rotating daily)and his sperm count/amount wasn't enough to last the season. Anyway, I put male in with each of them again and they both gave me FERTILE clutches the last couple of days. Thank goodness. Got a nice clutch this am from my superhypotang carrottail that turned out to be het for albino, which I bred to my hypotang carrot albino male (het patterless says Ron T., still hoping/waiting to hatch a patternless from one of my hets, but have only hatched one (a tang albino, too) from that crop so far, many I have not even bred yet...). Incubating for male, hoping at least one is albino. I figure the offspring even if not albino will likely be at least nice hypo tangs w/ some carrot which would be het for albino, and poss. het patterless, figure it should be easy to sell a hypotang male het for albino/poss. het patternless, if I don't get the new superhypotangcarrottailalbino breeder male I am hoping for...

Of course, my ultimate hope is they are BOTH albinos...wouldn't that be nice?

I have another egg incubating for male in the cooker that should be getting ready to hatch soon. That is a product of my male described above and his tang albino daughter, which will likely be a nice tang albino but there's always the possibility of a Tangerine Patternless Albino, if he passed the patternless gene to her...I can dream...

Of course that's even asuming they all hatch, which is no guarantee either, though the egg near to hatching looks very good, starting to get that pink glow.

My favorite part of breeding is the excitement/anticipation/surprise of what comes out when they hatch. It's the waiting that's hard...but I suppose that is part of the anticipation.

Congrats, Starling -- hope you get several beautiful leos out of the eggs! Last year I was breeding a lot of het-to-het albinos, only one albino out of the whole batch .. and it was from the last pair of eggs, too. This year my very first two hatchlings are both Tremper Giant Albinos! Wooo hooo! (bred from albino male & 2 het females, all 3 giants according to Mr. T). Now I'm wishing I'd incubated those two for females. .. some people are so hard to satisfy lol!

Seriously, here's wishing you healthy and prolific youngsters.
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Andrea A.

I'm not doing any het to het breedings except for the patternless gene which should be in half my hets, so my albino odds are a healthy one in two with the albino hets (and 1 in 8 patternless, though it's really 0% and 25%, depending on wheher the het actually recieved the patternless gene or not. Of course 100% albino with the alb to alb breedings...patternless is the only potential to hope for there with last year's albino offspring, which should be either a 0% chance or 25% for patternless, depending on if the poss het patternless actually is, or not.

My best surprise this year so far though is definately my superhypocarrottail girl turning out to be het albino. I'm still thrilled as heck over that!

Good deal, it is really a bummer for infertile eggs. All mine this year that have been fertile have hatched got a few more still cookin, have my fingers crossed.