how do carrot tails work?

[boywonder]

i have an adult male RAPTOR who has an almost non existent carrot tail, and a female juvenile with a 90% carrot tail, i plan to breed them once she gains weight, my question is what can i expect the offspring to have? with regard to the carrot tail, will they all be around the 40-50% mark or could i get some with none like the dad? and some with full carrot tails?

 

[Morph]

im just guessing but i think it just depends...i've heard of people getting ones with lots of carrot tail with parents with hardly any.

im not sure how it would work with both parents that have a lot of carrot tail or with just one.

 

[boywonder]

there must be people who've had experience breeding raptors with carrot tails to raptors without carrot tails, please share your findings with the forum

 

[godzillizard]

The more carrottail on the parents the better chance you have of getting more offspring with good carrottails--BUT, you can breed 2 geckos with zero CT and end up with solid orange tailed offspring (at least from the (R)aptor project. It's a polygentic trait, and will probably never really be very predictable

Your pair will produce crazy variation--if you breed the best CT male you produce this year to your CT female next year, you might get a couple more with the intense tails your hoping for, but you'll still get some with none at all...My nicest CT (almost solid) came from breeding my Raptor male with ZERO CT to an Aptor female with ZERO CT...and the babies from my best CT female (80%) were just as random--but not one hatched out with CT anywhere near as nice as their mother?!?

 

[boywonder]

nice one cheers godzillizard,

 

[Nomad]

next year I will be breeding a raptor male with an essentially 100% carrot tail to a female raptor with about 98% carrot tail it will be interesting to see what I get.