How does this happen:

[Matt K]

I crossed two of my nicer red striped emerines two years ago and got a bright orange hatchling that grew into this:

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q152/Matt_Kaplinsky/Critters/RSEmbyRSEmweclipse.jpg

His color is weird (light yellow-y with orange specs) and has both eyes eclipsed.

So my question is what would I call it? And I will probably sell it (him, its male) instead of breed him to another female, and have no idea what sort of price to sell it for. $100. $150 ? I am slightly concerned that one or both of the parents of this one may have more of these genes in them, which I don't want. What is the liklihood that this color or eye trait will show up if I bred him to either his sister or an unrelated female of the same as his parents (red stripe emerine)... ???

Thanks!

 

[Syris71]

If your sure of the pairing then the Striped Emerines must be het. for Eclipse. Not real surprising I guess since Emerines originated from Ron Tremper.

Eclipse is a recessive gene. So breeding him to non Eclipse would just give you het. Eclipse offspring. Pairing him too het. Eclipse would give you 50% Eclipse 50% het. Eclipse. Paring him to another Eclipse should give you 100% Eclipse.

I would label it as an Eclipse and disclose the Dam + Sire info to the buyer.