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[fadedsession]

i am a new owner to a 3 month old female het bell 50% radar leo. can someone tell me what het bell 50% radar means?

 

[Josm315]

Het is short for "Heterzygous" Meaning that the particular allele pair has one normal and one mutation, or two different mutations. I'm not sure if the het is referring to the bell trait, radar trait, or both, the way it is phrased. Eitherway, your gecko has a underlying trait in the genetics passed on from a parent/ancestor that can turn up if you breed that gecko to another with the same het.

Someone else will probably be able to give you the specifics on the phrasing though, especially with a picture of your gecko. (We love to see pictures of geckos! =3)

 

[fadedsession]

Ok thanks. Will post picture soon

 

[fadedsession]

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[Josm315]

Very cute! I would guess the morph is bell albino then... And then it'll be heterozygous for Raptor. So if you were to breed it with a raptor or het raptor, it would have a chance to produce raptor offpsring. That's my guess, though I'm certainly not as qualified as any of the forum's breeders or senior members.

 

[Thorgecko707]

Het bell, meaning one parent was bell. 50% het radar meaning one parent was het radar.

 

[Wild West Reptile]

Breaking it down as simple as I can....."het Bell" is exactly what Morgan said....One parent was a Bell Albino but yours isn't visually showing it. However, it does have the bell gene in it (assuming who you got it from is keeping accurate records), so potentially it could produce bells if paired with another Bell. As for the "50% radar" part...to me that means that your gecko has a 50% chance of being het for Radar. Meaning that you may or may not produce Radars if you choose to test breed it with a Radar. Hope that helps!!

 

[Thorgecko707]

+1

 

[fadedsession]

Thanks guys! Learn something new today. I got her at the reptile show in Anaheim, la last week.