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ghost x het. crimson?

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JaketheTick

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Ok, heres a question for you experts, or probably somebody who at least has a little understanding of this whole genetics game. I mated my ghost female with my het. for crimson male. I figured that since the het. crimson basically means miami het for hypo (which is basically what he looks like, miami with a little brighter red in some spots) and ghost is homo anery and homo hypo, that i would get a variation of norms het for anery and hypo, with probably at least a couple of hypos het for anery. Well, out of 11 good eggs, i got 5 nearly perfect anerys, one anery that could almost pass for a ghost, and 5 that look almost identical to the het. crimson dad when he had just hatched. Does that mean that the male must have also been het. anery or what? And arent the other 5 norms probably het. hypo and anery? Anyways, im getting a headache thinking about it...maybe somebody could help me out..
 
Since you got anerys, the miami is carrying anery. You also said he's carrying hypo. So she's ghost, he's het ghost. (Hypo and Anery)

Since the mom is a ghost, all of the babies are het hypo/anery. (Or expressing one/both traits, obviously they're not het for a recessive trait they are expressing. ;))
 
Of course Serp is absolutely right (none of you doubted that, did you?)!

However, although it is not at all conclusive, if none of your babies are actually homozygous for hypo, it may well be that the hypo carried by your miami male is not compatable with your ghost female's particular brand of hypo. Again, it is not conclusive, because you are not certain that none of them are homo for hypo yet (I believe you did say that one looked ghost-like?), and the numbers of hatchlings are not large enough to completely rule out the possibilities anyway.

But, if your breeders did carry genetically different forms of hypo, then the babies would be normals het for anery and hypo (x), or aneries het for hypo (x), all with a 50% possibility of also being het for hypo (y). The only way to tell is to perform breeding trials, but the headaches caused by the outcomes (or lack thereof) would not be worth the effort, IMHO. After all, you already know that they're all het for the hypo their mom expresses! :D
 
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