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What would work with a silver queen?

pategirl

pategirl

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I have a male silver queen corn that I plan on breeding when he is old enough and ready. He already has one future mate, a ghost het for silver queen(supposedly) female. I plan on getting another female for him, but I'm not sure what other morph to go with. Any ideas that will get me something interesting?
 
Not to give a "duh" answer, but..

I think another Silverqueen would be the best match.

I don't think anyone has nailed down the actual influences behind them. Many people suspect they have miami-like influences, which might be what distinguishes them from other ghosts. I would be interested in seeing what kind of clutch would come from Miami or Hypo miami crossed to silverqueen.

I'd also be interested to see what any snows from silverqueen lines would look like. (That is, assuming they'd even BE any different than other snows.) Silverqueen X snow should give anerys het hypo and amel. The F2s from such a cross could possibly be distinctive.

I don't know if Rich Z has done anything along those lines yet, or crossed them out to different types of normals or anything. I assume that he has noticed some type of inheritance resembling "simple" if he uses the term "het" in conjunction with them.

It's yet another one of the corn morphs that we all have a whole lot to learn about. (which equals fun fun fun! :D)

Of course, any info Rich can offer on his observations of the inheritance of "the look" would be of great interest to a lot of us. ;-) (nudge nudge, hehe)
 
Heck, I can think of several combos right off hand that I wouldn't mind trying, but I really don't need more keepers this upcoming season:

Cross Silver Queen with

Candy Cane
Motley
Blood Red
Upper Keys
Axanthic 'A' Anerythristic
Milk Snake Motley
Striped
Scarlet (this is a form of Hypomelanism that showed up from the original ancestor of the Silver Queen line)
Hypo Okeetee
Sunkist

Heck, and I'm not even breathing hard thinking of possibilities! But thinking of the number of keepers I would need to hold back definitely gets the heart to palpitating. Any new project is a definite commitment on resources that needs to be considered.

I have one or two of the above in the works myself, but honestly, I am getting interesting enough results just from the Silver Queens themselves to keep me occupied. Some of them are noticeably lighter colored than others as adults. At least one is heading towards trying to lose all of it's pattern. Some have patternless or nearly patterless abdomens and/or heads.

Hmm, what about combining Charcoal Ghost with Silver Queen and working towards a combo of those genes?
 
Thanks! I'll let you all know what comes of whatever I do with the guy....he won't be ready for at least another year. That gives me some time to ponder a little. He is light...his belly is patternless too, with the exception of maybe a few checks.
 
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