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Seems like a lot of folks produced orange thayeri this season. Wondering if that was on purpose or if orange tends to be a dominant color? By that I mean if you bred an orange male with a green female, you'd get more orange hatchlings than not.

Hi,

from my expirience i can tell you that breeding a green leonis-phase male to a orange leonis-phase female will mostly produce yellowish offspring, some orange and true green is rare, only 1 of 14 shows green from this season`s clutch.

yours

Michael

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>>Seems like a lot of folks produced orange thayeri this season. Wondering if that was on purpose or if orange tends to be a dominant color? By that I mean if you bred an orange male with a green female, you'd get more orange hatchlings than not.

Orange thayeri are the result of line breeding with no introduction of new bloodlines nor any outcrossing.

Orange thayeri were sought after over the past decade, but I think there has been a turn towards earth tones over the past few years.......

Personally I enjoy earth tones over oranges and yellows, but I still enjoy a brightly colored line bred thayeri too.......
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...

I've got one. I bought it from Denmark last year and thought it would be a nice mate for my yellow female.

Hi peter54!

Very nice thayeri, i like the small bandings.
Can you post a pic of your yellow female?

And where are you living?

Greetings from germany,
Michael

Hi and thanks. The danish guy I bought the orange male from is probably not the breeder, so I'm really not sure from where it originates. Maybe it's from Germany.

The female however, is a swedish bred, here she is:

I like him!