I recently found an adult male butter and purchased it for $60. I was told that it is a combination of amel. and caramel. I tried the genetics wizard to see what I would have to do get another butter ( if I didnt already have one ) but cant figure it out!! When I put in breeding an amel to a carmel I get normal hets. But when I put a parent as both amel and caramel it gives butter for the one parent. What was combined to get the butter to begin with?
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what makes a butter
wisema2297
Jan 01, 2006 01:46 AM
Replies (3)
triplemoons
Jan 01, 2006 07:46 PM
Butter = Amel Caramel
If you breed an Amel to a Caramel, you produce double het for Amel and Caramel. Breed the double hets together and you will produce Amel, Caramel, Butter and Normal offspring.
triplemoons
Jan 01, 2006 07:51 PM
A better break down is...
het Amel Caramel x het Amel Caramel
=
1/2 Normal 66% het Amel Caramel
1/5 Amel 50% het Caramel
1/5 Caramel 50% het Amel
1/16 Butter (Amel Caramel)
Butter x het Amel Caramel
=
1/4 Normal het Butter
1/4 Amel het Caramel
1/4 Caramel het Butter
1/4 Butter (Amel Caramel)
Paul Hollander
Jan 02, 2006 09:28 AM
What the wizard did not tell you was that it takes two genes to get amelanistic and two different genes to get caramel.
Lets use cards for an illustration:
Amelanistic occurs when you have two red aces. The snake looks normal when there are two black aces or a black ace paired with a red ace.
Caramel occurs when you have two red jacks. The snake looks normal when there are two black jacks or a black jack paired with a red jack.
An amelanistic snake has two red aces and two black jacks. A caramel snake has two black aces and two red jacks. You take one ace and one jack from each snake to produce a baby. The result is a baby with a black ace paired with a red ace and a black jack paired with a red jack. The snake lookes normal and is heterozygous for amelanistic and heterozygous for caramel.
To be a butter, the baby has to be both amelanistic and caramel. It must have two red aces and two red jacks. Because each parent provides one ace and one jack for each baby, both parents must have at least one red ace and at least one red jack to pick from. Otherwise no butters are produced.
Hope this helps.
Paul Hollander
