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[Roaming Reptiles]

I am new to this and need some help. Like what exactly is line breeding and how do I know what is Dom,Rec or co dom? How do I know what I will get if I breed my Tremper Albino to my Super Hypo carrot tail?

 

[acpart]

"Line breeding" is when you take geckos that come closest to displaying the traits you want and breed them together to get geckos that come even closer to the traits you want. "Dominant", "Recessive" and "Co-dominant" are defined many places in this forum and on the internet, so if you search, you will find that info.

I have bred my Tremper albino to my super hypo carrot tail, so I'll tell you what I got:

a variety of geckos, some tangerine, some pale pastel yellow, with a range from no spots to many spots, although most of them had reduced spotting. Unless your super hypo carrot tail has an unseen recessive albino gene, none of the babies will look albino, but they will all have an albino gene. If you breed these babies back to the albino parent, or breed siblings to each other, a certain percentage of the resulting offspring will be albino. If you really like the superhypo look, you would hold back and breed the least spotted geckos. If you breed a superhypo who has an albino gene to an albino or another gecko with an albino gene, some of your babies will be super hypo albinos, otherwise known as "hybinos" or "sunglows". That's what I did this year.

Aliza