Breeding Super Hypo Tangerine Carrot Tail Baldy.

[trinity]

How offten does the tangerine super hypo, Carrot Tail, and Baldy pass on if I breed two together? My understanding was that if I bred two and one was deeper OJ or had more of a Carrot Tail the babies would end up in the middle, the costs of Baldy hypo's seems always a bit more then a hypo of the same genes so I would guess even if breeding two together not all would end up Baldy, the same if I breed two 50% Carrot Tails...not all would end up with 50% Carrot Tail?

It seems this morph is pretty spendy to get a super, Carrot Tail, Baldy with 50% Carrot Tail.. Does any one have a breeding project going and what are the results?

I really fell in love with tangerines and would not mind working on a project at some point with them..

 

[acpart]

The traits are polygenetic, meaning that they are inherited from a bunch of different genes. If you breed them, you will get a range of spottiness and a range of orange. To get really nice ones, the parents should be high quality. To have a reasonable breeding project, you would hold back your best babies and breed them to each other or back to the parent (with outcrossing to non-related geckos as the generations go on) and over time you will refine your offspring to very orange with few spots. It's really impossible to calculate a percentage because it's not simple dominant/recessive.

Aliza

 

[DrCarrotTail]

Aliza's spot on. Breeding 2 nice SHTCTBs will more than likely give you all or most SHTCTBs. The catch is, if you get two from two totally unrelated lines and the genes don't mesh well you might get more than a few that aren't. Breeding two animals that look similar but are from really different places is always a crap shoot like that - but an exciting one in my opinion!! You might get something super cool and super special or you might get a bunch of kinda boring babies. Part of the fun of breeding them!

 

[Dinosaur!]

This year I bred a SHTCT and a SHTCTB and about half the babies are obviously baldy, and the others are obviously not. Also, some of the babies inherited their dads very bright, and somewhat light, orange, and some inherited their mothers smokey tangerine color. But some are in the middle and have a super deep bright orange that seems to be a mix of the two parents

 

[trinity]

Thanks this info is very helpful, the mixing different lines is something Ron was touching on in a interview and I had not thought about much in geckos..