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Old 01-01-2008, 03:24 PM
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i have 2 adult normals (male and female) and a female baby mack snow. im thinking in the futre i'd like to breed, but have no idea on genetics, and what morphs are desirable. so im looking to buy more young females before i get any males, any ideas on nice matches? (wont be breeding the normals at the moment as i have no idea on ages and at the mo they are both not feeding and having bad sheds) ive found a really sweet patternless male, and a super hypo but im not sure what they would produce or if they would even go together! any ideas at all would be great. thanks
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If you buy recessive morphs, you will ONLY get normals in the first generation unless you buy a pair of animals with the same genes - either hets or homozygous (for example, if you bought a Tremper Blazing Blizzard and bred it to a Tremper Patternless Albino, you'd get all albinos het Blizzard and Patternless - and if you bred a Blazing Blizzard to a Patternless Het Albino, you'd get some albinos het blizzard and patternless, some normals het albino, blizzard and patternless.)
Recessive genes are:
Bell Albino
Tremper Albino
Las Vegas/Rainwater Albino
Patternless
Blizzard
Eclipse (solid black or ruby eyes)

Co-dominant genes will make some visual animals in the first generation. Super snow and Mack snow are the same morph, but in different strengths - a mack snow is "het" for the gene, and a super snow is homozygous. Both of these can produce Mack Snows no matter what they are bred to.
Codominant/incomplete genes include:
Mack Snow
Hypo/Superhypo

The best thing to do, really, is make a decision on what you want to MAKE and then buy animals that will make those... or buy animals you LIKE and don't worry about what they MAKE.
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