Carrot-tail to be genetic morph?

[zhengzhu]

There is a debate in our local (Taiwan) forum for the morph of Super Hypo Baldy Carrot-tail.

One breeder claims his SHCT breeders never generate babies with any dark pigment on the dorsal skin and the head, because his breeding colony is genetically selected.

I doubt this because the babies of my SHCT can be very different from each other.

What's your opinion for this topic?

 

[okapi]

I doubt his claims. and I doubt he would be willing to show pictures to prove it as well :main_lipsrsealed:

 

[robin]

the hypo seems to genetic however the carrottail is selectively bred trait

 

[okapi]

True, but they still hatch banded and fade. They never hatch out as 100% copies of an adult of the morph...

 

[robin]

True, but they still hatch banded and fade. They never hatch out as 100% copies of an adult of the morph...

nope you are right but breed a hypo to anything and you get all varying degrees of hypo.
remember, hypomelanism isn't the lacking of melanin but rather reduced melanin.even a gecko with a lot of spots can be a hypo. it may not be a super hypo but it will have less spotting than a true normal. also for some odd reason a lot do not hatch out all banded tangs and super hypos, but rather have aberrancies.

now to get a super hypo baldie, even though the hypo gene being dominant you have to take those dominant (some say co dom) hypos and selectively breed them to get less and less spotting. this is how the original super hypos and super hypo baldies were made. as far as the carrottail, that is a selectively bred trait all the way.

 

[zhengzhu]

Thanks Robin.
Very imformative post!

 

[robin]

you're welcome

 

[bittner_344]

Wow Robin, you really know your stuff eh!

 

[robin]

sometimes

when i decide to actually make an informative post lol