Breeding Question? :)

[IslaReina]

My little Nova is far too young to breed, she is only about six months old. I am going into my senior year of high school and am hoping I will be able to bring her to college. After college, when I have a stable lifestyle and am able to afford more reptile equipment, it would be awesome to breed her.

She is a super hypo tangerine carrot tail. She has always been healthy and happy and is a really friendly gecko, she has just started walking up into my hand when I go to pick her up. When I get out of college, she will be about 5-7 years old. Is this a good age to start breeding her?

I know nothing about breeding and genetics, so I want to start simple. I really like the looks of Bell albinos and Mack snows. If I were to find a male of either one and crossed them, what would i get?

Thanks!
<3 Laura

 

[acpart]

It's a good idea for you to wait till your life is more stable and to have a long term plan. I think that at that age your gecko will have a few good breeding years, especially since she won't have laid eggs before that. Here's what you'll get if you cross your gecko with the males you mention:

Mack Snow: 50% of the babies will be Mack snow if you cross with a regular snow and 100% will be snow if you cross with a supersnow. You should realize, though, that many Mack snows grow up to look indistinguishable from non-snows and to make it "worse" in a lot of cases their coloring comes out kind of grayish yellow

Bell albino: unless your gecko has an albino gene, you will get non-albino geckos with an albino gene ("het" for albino). You can get albinos if you breed the offspring back to the male.

Aliza

 

[Laza]

Leo's

Because your girl is a SHCT and you like the Bell Albino, i'd go for a Bell's Sunglo. You would then incubate these as female, then mate them back to dad. You will then produce a mixture of SHCT and Bell's Sunglo's (Which are Albino form of SHCT) Or if you want to go down the snow route. Get a Macsnow Bell's or Supersnow Bell's. Again incubate for females, Keep the females with Macsnow banding(Macs will have white bands as babies,if you use a Supersnow bells all babies will be Macksnow), mate these back to dad. You'll then have quite a mixture of possibilities, Macsnows,Macsnow Bells, Supersnows,Supersnow Bell's, Bell Albino's and Normals het Bells. Your Macsnows, Bell Albinos and normals will show Limited spotting as the Hypo in your female is also dominant.
Hope this wasn't to long winded for you.

 

[IslaReina]

Thank you guys both very much! Now I m not so sure what I would want. What is the best thing to breed with a SHTC? That would get the most interesting results?