>>That's an awesome animal! You're right - NO black tipping! How big is he and who's going to be his mate this year? Thanks for the pic!
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>>Zee
(thanks zee; before i forget it, how about posting or emailing me a pic of that "golden corn" you referred to in another tdhread on this forum! thanks.)
he's 489 grams today (still brumating). I have a number of options for breeding him, but tentative plan is to put him with two double het for hybino females (remember he's tangerine albino and het/hypo) and two hypo females. These pairings will produce for me: tangerine albinos possible hybino (and maybe a few tricolor albinos, too); het albinos possible het hypo; hypos het albino; and double-hets for hybino.
I also have a very pale orange tangerine albino male big enough to breed for the first time this year and i want to test him to see if he IS a hybino. I'll do that by breeding him to two hypos--if good sized clutches and they're all hypos, it'll satisfy me he IS a hybino, though it won't constitute absolute proof.
A couple other hondo groups i'm excited about are one that could produce the first triple-homozygous baby, and another that tests the extreme hypo x extreme hypo breedings, get more data on what to expect from that, to help us sort out the extreme genetics. My breedings this year have the POSSIBILITY of producing all three types of single-homozygous, doiuble-het animals for triple homozygous projects down the road: hypo double het for amel & anery; amel double het for hypo and anery; and anery double het for amel and hypo. But they won't necessarily produce that, we'll have to wait and see.
peace
terry
