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Old 09-05-2008, 07:14 PM
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hi, my patternless female gecko is gravid so if im right her babies will be het patternless, poss het albino (dad is normal het albino). Would it cause bad genes or deformities if i were to keep a male offspring and breed him back to the mother?

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Its generally a bad idea to interbreed due to health issues that can manifest in the young.
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Old 09-05-2008, 07:41 PM
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Its generally a bad idea to interbreed due to health issues that can manifest in the young.
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Old 09-05-2008, 07:59 PM
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not to sound stupid but what happens to the babies of new morphs which have to be bred together? are newer morphs weaker imune wise than normals because of the interbreeding?
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Old 10-05-2008, 10:12 PM
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u can breed them back mate,shouldnt cause any issuses u should get visibal morphs next time too. eveyone does it theres nothing wrong with it.
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as for the last question no, i think that u are supposted to introduce new blood every 5 generations but no deffo on that
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just noticed im a wooping 5foot 7 too
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as for the last question no, i think that u are supposted to introduce new blood every 5 generations but no deffo on that
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just noticed im a wooping 5foot 7 too
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I think every 5 generations is a little to long deformaties may have already become apparant.
I personally would only interbreed for 3 generations, and if you are going to interbreed make sure you make very good records of parents etc...
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I think 'inbreeding' is okay if the parents are unrelated and you bring some new blood in your lines every 3rd generation like sam already said.
Since this is indeed how they start with new morphs. You sometimes cant't get any more of the same morph without inbreeding.

btw if the parents are patternless and normal het albino your babies will be all normals het patternless and 50% poss het albino
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