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#1 ·
Can someone please help me.
I've been trying to find this answer myself, but to no avail.
I currently have a 5' female orange saddled candy cane corn.
I am wishing to purchase a male soon with hopes of breeding them.

Will breeding a candy cane with an amel produce the same genetic morphs and breeding two amels together?
This is because when i've been looking around all i can tell is that a candy cane is genetically an amel with distinctive white and red/orange bands?

Cheers
Charthan
 
#2 ·
You are right.

Candy canes are selectively bred. This means the animals in a litter with the whitest background have been hand picked by the breeder and then bred with another animal with the whitest possible background. Then the offspring with even whiter backgrounds are kept back and bred etc etc etc. Over a number of generations, breeders will produce a litter of animals that would be considered candy canes.

If you bred the candy cane to a 'normal' amel then all you are doing is undoing all the generations of selective breeding and will produce a litter of normal amel babies (some of which may be leaning towards 'high white' amels, but none of which should really be sold as candycanes no matter how high white.

The only way to produce more true candy canes is to breed to type (i.e. another candycane.



Cheers

Andy
 
#4 ·
true candycanes are also a selectively bred amel miami :)
 
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