gene calculator

[hskrborn71]

I have an ember project going on this year. I understand that when i take my female paternless het raptor and breed to my male raptor i will get some that are raptor het paternless and some that are albino dh raptor paternless. So heres my question when i put the genes into lovegecko.com calculator the results always i have in the results like 50% Tremper Albino HET Patternless, Eclipse, 50% Patternless Tremper Albino HET Eclipse. Now this is breeding the offspring to a male ember so is the ember really an eclipse or am i putting a gene in that is not suppose to be there? thanks if you can answer this for me.


Bill

 

[J.P.]

you have the right "ingredients" for ember, afaik.

but you will be doing it the long way by breeding the raptor het MP with the albino double het raptor&MP. you'd be going in circles if you go about your breeding projects this way.

since your goal is ember, the faster way is to breed together offspring which are both raptor het MP. this will give you 50% raptor het MP, 25% ember, and 25% raptor.

try doing mixing it up in the milliondollargecko calculator. i think this is more comprehensive than lovegecko. just fill out all the fields to the best you can and it gives a pretty good estimate.

***MP= murphy patternless

this is how i understand the situation, please point out if i am mistaken.

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

Also keep in mind that RAPTOR is not one single simple recessive trait. It is several traits not all of which breed true. I doubt that the gene calculators take that into consideration.

 

[J.P.]

i agree with ethan since the "ingredients" for RAPTOR act on their own and do not always combine together. the percentages are calculated mathemetically, but it's just a guide. in the real world, even 2 RAPTORs bred to each other do not always produce 100% RAPTORs. so far, there is no scientific way of telling how the genes would combine.