Electric Emerine Bold Stripe Bell, 66% het Eclipse?

[BigBen]

So I am a new to genetics and designers. Just ordered a male from Bold & Bright listed as an Electric Emerine Bold Stripe Bell, 66% het Eclipse? I am lost when it comes to dominate, recessive, and co-dominate. Tried using the morph calculator and it confused me even worse lol. What does it take to create one of these? Any guess as to what his parents were?

 

[Neon Aurora]

Emerine and bold stripe are line bred traits, so to produce those you just selectively breed the geckos with the best stripes and most emerine. That also goes for the orange you see on him. Bell albino is a recessive trait, which he is homozygous (has two alleles or copies of the gene, which allows a recessive gene to be expessed visually) for. That's why his spots are brown instead of black. 66% het eclipse means that one of his parents was a homozygous eclipse and one was heterozygous (one allele or copy of the gene, not visually expessed) eclipse, so he has a 66% chance of being heterozgous for eclipse and being able to pass the gene on to his offspring. Eclipse is also a recessive trait and refers to solid black/red eyes.

Beautiful gecko. =)

 

[BigBen]

Emerine and bold stripe are line bred traits, so to produce those you just selectively breed the geckos with the best stripes and most emerine. That also goes for the orange you see on him. Bell albino is a recessive trait, which he is homozygous (has two alleles or copies of the gene, which allows a recessive gene to be expessed visually) for. That's why his spots are brown instead of black. 66% het eclipse means that one of his parents was a homozygous eclipse and one was heterozygous (one allele or copy of the gene, not visually expessed) eclipse, so he has a 66% chance of being heterozgous for eclipse and being able to pass the gene on to his offspring. Eclipse is also a recessive trait and refers to solid black/red eyes.

Beautiful gecko. =)

Thank you so much for the reply! It is so interesting learning about the different morphs and traits. He was a little on the pricey side. But when I saw him I fell in love! I thought he was beautiful also! If I were to breed him one day (maybe in the spring when I learn more) what should I go with as a female? In your opinion? I have heard you don't want to breed certain types together due to "muddy waters" what is that exactly?

 

[Neon Aurora]

"muddying the waters" refers mostly to people breeding "pet quality" animals and ending up with geckos of mixed albino strains and hidden hets and just a generally uneducated mix of genes.

With this one, you have quite a few options. The only thing you're going to want to avoid is breeding him to anything that has tremper albino genes or rainwater albino genes. He's a bell albino, so you don't want to mix him with either of the other two strains of albinism. None of the albinism genes are compatible, so genes get really messy when you mix those ones.

One of the most common things people do (myself included) is producing RADARs, RAPTORs, or Typhoons. These all refer to an animal that is albino, eclipse, and patternless striped. Using line bred traits, you can mix orange and all kinds of stuff in there and get some very stunning animals. RADAR is bell albino, eclipse, and patternless stripe, so you could try producing this one. You have many options, you would just want a female that's bell albino or eclipse or both. You may also want her to be tangerine or emerine, so you can keep that quality in the offspring.

Over all, you just want to work with genes that are compatible and practical, giving you genetically clean offspring. It's generally not recommended to produce a bunch of hets. When I say hets, I'm referring to animals that are heterozygous for a recessive gene, so they carry one copy instead of two and do not express the gene visually.

It's all a little complicated, so I would really recommend you do a lot of reading before really looking into read it. I could sit here all day and talk about it, but that would end in a very long post. =)