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ok, so I have a normal morph, male adult leo that I was interested in introducing to a couple of females. my question is, if i buy a more expensive/marketable morph (albino, blizzard), will it do me any good? will i end up with a few mini-albinos, or just sort of half-assed albinos that don't really look like anything special? i have zero breeding experience and am just considering my options, any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
alex

>>ok, so I have a normal morph, male adult leo that I was interested in introducing to a couple of females. my question is, if i buy a more expensive/marketable morph (albino, blizzard), will it do me any good? will i end up with a few mini-albinos, or just sort of half-assed albinos that don't really look like anything special? i have zero breeding experience and am just considering my options, any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
>>alex

If you bought and albino and breed it to a normal you would get normal looking babies that are het for albino.
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The offspring will be het for whatever recessive trait (albino, hypo, etc...) They will all have the gene but will look like dad. You could breed those het for ___?__ offspring to another albino or ? and get 50% albino or whatever & 50% het for albino or ?. This is a just an example, some traits are codominant so these probabilities won't really apply to those traits. Genetics is a tricky thing at times.
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You would get Normals het for albino/blizzard. It means that on the outside it will look like a normal but actually if bred to an albino/blizzard half of the offspring will be albino/blizzard and the other half will be het. Does this make sense?? Hopefully someone else can help you better.
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Katie
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Is there a webisite to go to for information about this?

Yes, you can go here. Genetics
Go to the very bottom, the last question has some basic genetics info.
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