breeding morph question

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lexx

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hi everyone, i was wondering if you could help me out with a little problem. i have a 5yr old female tremper albino that i have finally decided to breed.

my question is what kinds of morphs would i get if i bred her to a non tremper albino (my desired out come would not be normal phase).... that's why i asked about dominate genes in my last post.

thanks alot,
lexx
 
RampantReptiles

RampantReptiles

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You would get a normal phase that is het for both tremper albino and whatever else you bred it to. All Albino genes are recessive and require both parents to have a copy of that gene whether it be 2 copies(shown albino) or 1 copy(het for albino).
Hope that helps!
Michelle
 
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ReptileChick

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Wow, that's useful! lol! I have two hatchlings from my mack snow male and albino female, and both look normal. If bred back would that my albino mack snows?
 
RampantReptiles

RampantReptiles

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Nopers... because of the way that the Mack snow gene works. It is a codominate gene, not recessive like albino. For example, we would have the letters MM for a normal/non-mack snow. A mack snow would be Mm, and a super snow is mm. There is no such thing as a het for mack snow, if the gecko has a snow gene it would be visible. Meaning your geckos are a couple of normals het albino. However! You do have a 50% chance that if you breed your adults again that you could get a mack snow het albino. Then if you wish to make a mack snow albino you can do it any number of ways. The best way obviously would be to breed it to a mack snow albino. Next best would be another mack snow het albino, and third would be another albino... least that is all I can think of unless you do something really extreme and breed it to a super snow albino which is like a $500 gecko...
If you want percentage chances on any of those crosses I can calculate them or help you calculate them.

As a side note... I am actually fairly new to all this gecko breeding and havent even hatched out any babies yet so I am really sorry if I make a mistake. I have done a lot of research about breeding and a friend of mine is a breeder told me how the mack snow gene works so I am confident that what I wrote is correct but if any senior breeders would care to correct me at anytime feel free!

Hope this helps! :)
Michelle
 
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Riverside Reptiles

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lexx said:
hi everyone, i was wondering if you could help me out with a little problem. i have a 5yr old female tremper albino that i have finally decided to breed.

my question is what kinds of morphs would i get if i bred her to a non tremper albino (my desired out come would not be normal phase).... that's why i asked about dominate genes in my last post.

thanks alot,
lexx
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If you don't want normals, you should get a male that carries the tremper albino gene as well as something else. For example, a Tremper blazing blizzard bred to your female would give you all tremper albinos het for blizzard. Or a Tremper patternless male would give you Tremper albino babies that were het for patternless. Or you could go high end and get a Raptor male and you'd end up with tremper albino babies that were all het for Raptor. Lot's of other stuff you could do as well.
 
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