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Am I right in thinking you can't have a het for tiger? I thought the tiger was het for supper tiger, right?

Just want to make sure I'm thinking right.

Thanks

no there is no het for tigers the tiger trait is a co-dominate gene
meaning the offspring will show the trait in the first generation and a tiger isnt het for a super tiger either.. the super tiger trait is the homozygous form of the tiger trait.

Yea thats kinda what I thought, a tiger is the heterozygous, and the supper is the homozygous form of the tiger gene.

Just wanted to make sure there wasn't some kind of new recessive tiger retic, out there that I didn't know about.

Thanks

Usually when you hear someone refer to their "Tiger Het," it means the tiger is het for albino.
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-Steve Ray

Yea, that I did know.

No this is about an add from someone who I know knows better. He has a retic listed as a double het for albino AND tiger. He says it a few times in the ad. I'm not going to name names here as I don't want this post pulled, but he is a "good guy" and I know for a fact he knows better.

anyway thanks

a dh retic? well the albinism trait is a dominate trait dominate genes are shown is second generation offspring..
the tiger trait is co-dominate and with co-dominate genes the gene carriers show the trait in first generation. IF THEY DONT SHOW IT THEY DONT HAVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The person with that ad does call the snake a double het tiger and albino, and I was wondering about that myself. My suspicion though is that he had a momentary lapse in thought, because if you look at the picture, the animal is a tiger. So he's not trying to sell a normal retic as het for tiger and albino, he just misworded or was thinking along the wrong lines.

And for the previous poster, the gene for albinism is actually recessive, which explains why it is "masked" when an animal carries it along with a normal gene. If it were dominant, a het animal would appear albino and carry the masked gene for normal.
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Chance Duncan
www.rivervalleyexotics.com

"And for the previous poster, the gene for albinism is actually recessive, which explains why it is "masked" when an animal carries it along with a normal gene. If it were dominant, a het animal would appear albino and carry the masked gene for normal."
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o.k. well you guys got the point lol im a work in progress..
thanks for clearing it up.