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What are worth more, tri-colored or tangerine hypos? What were to happen if you bred a tangerine to a tri-colored?

Tricloreds hypos are worth more than tangerine hypos. If you bred tangerine to a tricolored or tricolored to tangerine you would get tangerines and tricoloreds. Thanks Scott

I've had more tricolors come out of tangerine x tangerine breedings than from tangerine x tricolor breedings. I know this may not make much sense, but those have been my results. At any rate, tricolor hypos are much more rare than tangerine hypos.

Tim

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>>What are worth more, tri-colored or tangerine hypos? What were to happen if you bred a tangerine to a tri-colored?

the first hypos were from bill and kathy love's "tangerine dream" stock so were already noted for their especially strong tangerine chracteristics. People who bred the early hypos had to outcross to tricolors, then breed back, to introduce the tricolor characteristic into the hypo line. And as Scott points out, tricolor & tangerine aren't simple recessives, but rather points on a continuum, so they can't be bred into a strain in as straightforward a manner as recessive traits can be. So the tricolored hypos are the "new thing" and independent of which type is prettier, supply and demand contributes to the newer scarcer tricolor version going for a premium.
this is the same reason, by the way, why there are fewer tangerine albinos than tricolor albinos--louis porras' original albino stock came from strongly tricolored (red, black and white) animals--so the tangerine trait had to be slowly bred into that morph.
terry