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What to bread to my amel?

kxv

kxv

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I have a regular 'ol run of the mill amel. What would you breed to her to get a cool morph? I have the Progeny Predictor program but would like to get opinions from those who have done this before. I'm interested in colors more than patterns.
 
I had a 'run of the mill' amel and found him a snow girlfriend. Found out that out of an
18 egg clutch I received good looking normals, amels, and anerys.

Didn't know either parents or hets so I figured that was a good way to find out.
 
Yes a Snow is what Im breeding my Amel to... since Im breeding my Amel to a snow I can see if my Amel is het Snow... trying to distinguish what my corns are het for... you could also get a bloodred to breed it to... then You would need to breed the siblings of the f1 generation to have a possibility to produce Amel Bloods... Im not sure of the chances to get a Amel blood... would it be 1/16 anyone???
 
F1 means what you get from the pairing of your amel and to the bloodred... F1 is the babys of your pairing... we call it the F1 generation since they are the first pairing... after you take the male and female of that pairing (the F1) then when you get babys from them you call them the F2 generation and so on... if you breed your Amel to a Bloodred then you would get ALL normals het for Amel and Bloodred... those would be the F1 generation... since the F1 generation is Het for Amel and Bloodred... then you could take the siblings of the F1 generation and inbreed (inbreeding isnt bad unless you do it for multiple generations!) but if you inbreed your F1 generation then you could have a chance to produce... Amel bloodreds, Bloodreds, Amels, and normals... and all those should be het for either Amel or Bloodred... of course if you want to breed the F1 generations then you have to think of the time lapse of the pairings... it usually takes about 2 years to raise a corn to a breedable size... so you could expect if you do it my way that you could have Amel bloodreds in about 4-5 years... if you dont understand I can try to give you more examples... check out Serpwidgets site if you want to learn more about genetics...

http://serpwidgets.com/cornsnakes/morphs/morphs.html

there you go...
 
Ummm...

neuman said:
I had a 'run of the mill' amel and found him a snow girlfriend. Found out that out of an
18 egg clutch I received good looking normals, amels, and anerys.

Didn't know either parents or hets so I figured that was a good way to find out.
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I wouldn't count on getting normals from breeding a snow to an amel. Since amelanism is a recessive trait, it would be a very rare occasion indeed for anyone to get a normal (and especially normals) from such a pairing.

Instead, I would count on getting all amels. If the amel is het anery (aka het snow) you would get something in the area of half and half amels and snows.

Sounds more like the father of the above clutch was not the amelanistic male. Rather it was probably a male that was a normal, and was het for amel and anery.
 
I agree with Serpwidgets. The only way to get that outcome is by breeding a normal dh snow to the snow, rather than an amel...
 
Now you folks have me curious. I must find out if my amel is het for something. I think I'll call the breeder and find out.
 
LOL hopefully your breeder will remember... or even know what its het for... I have some corns that I use to be my "find out what hets my other corns are" some are het for 3 to 4 things!!! this really helps me out to see what my unknown het corns are... example I have a Normal that is het for Anery A, Amel, Hypo, Bloodred... this is good since If I have a unknown corn (genetics are unknown) then I breed it with my Male "find out what hets my other corns are" and if my unknown corn is het for any of those traits (Anery a, Amel, Hypo, and Bloodred) then they will show up in the F1 generation from that pairing... but let me tell you I have fun sitting in my Socialogy class (College) in the back and work out Punett Squares just for the fun of it!!! I love genetics!!! I love corns!!! and Serpwidgets your my hero!!! Im going to major in Medical Tech. and Genetics!!!!!!!!
 
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