Future tessera pairing!

[Senusenu]

I've got some time to go before this happens (my car will be paid off before this happens, so I will be able to invest in a couple of racks before this revs up), but I like thinking ahead

This is Cygnet, my tessera het hypo bloodred

And then I found this male hypo pied het caramel, who I am paying for tomorrow
(baby pics)

(current, at about 1 year)

I have been reading on the pied genetics, I know it will make the babies het for pied, and that high expression animals don't always produce high expression babies, so I would like to see if I can selectively breed lower expression animals with the best amount of white and eventually breed up to high expression. Pied was NOT my intention in getting him (I just wanted a hypo blood male), so I consider it a bonus along with the caramel.

It will be a fun project for sure!

 

[Nanci]

Cool project! I love bloodred tesseras!

 

[Senusenu]

Here he is! The photo doesn't do him justice at all.

 

[hypnoctopus]

He looks great. It should be a fun pairing.

 

[Senusenu]

He looks great. It should be a fun pairing.

Thanks It'll be at least two years until she is big enough, and it feels like forever, but their babies will be awesome.