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DMong
at Fri Jul 8 22:38:48 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]
Yes, you certainly can breed Leucy x leucy and get no "bug-eyed" offspring, but doing so can often make the offspring more prone for the undesireable tandem trait to pop up from all the inbreeding. To minimize this, new blood from unrelated T-rats should be introduced to the leucistics. Then this will produce heterozygous carriers for the leucistic trait. then when these are back-bred to the leucistic parent, or to each other, the likelihood of perpetuating the buge-eyed trait is GREATLY reduced, if not totally non-existent.
~Doug
 ----- "a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing" 

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