Hi guys, I posted in May about breeding this interesting wild caught male to normal females. Eggs from 2 girls have hatched and all are totally normal. I thought I might get some kind of visual hets but no luck. So now to raise up the potential hets
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Black Rat breeding results
marksherps
Jun 28, 2012 08:20 PM
Replies (3)
AlexNevgloski
Jun 28, 2012 08:28 PM
Seems to me that two clutches of normal looking critters is exactly what you'd expect to get. Is there a reason you expected visual hets?
marksherps
Jun 28, 2012 09:00 PM
Yep, the color of the eyes are not pink like an albino.
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Mark Kennedy
DMong
Jun 29, 2012 03:21 PM
Best of luck with those hets being bred back to the parent, and each other. I would expect nothing but very normal phenotypes as well like the other poster mentioned. With a recessive colubrid trait, unless there is an identical copy from EACH parent, you will hardly EVER see any oddities or visual morph "markers" in any offspring. The next (F-2) generations however should hopefully produce some awesome homozygous morphs!..
~Doug
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