Isolating desirable traits

[happysmile88]

Does anyone have any experience in trying to isolate a specific genetic traits? For example: I have a SS Blizzard that's probably het for tremper and eclipse (I'm not too sure but the seller told me that when he bred it to a sunglow het raptor, it produced snow raptors and diablo blancos). It's confusing how he got those babies but the female is definitely a blizzard. What I want to do is to be able to remove het albino from the blizzard but I'm not too sure how to go about that. The other problem is that he already mated the same pair so i'll have to wait next breeding season to get started. Whatever the babies that come out of this season, I'll get a general idea of what hets the blizzard has.
So how would you go about this problem? Under the condition that there are likely no non-het albinos in the market available or at least nobody is sure they possess non-hets.

 

[RampantReptiles]

Breeding the Albino out is no easy task.
It would be easier if you had a non-albino male to breed to and I know there are people out there that have these (geckosetc.com is a good place to start. I just got a female MS Blizzard no hets from there).
Otherwise, what you could do is take any of the non-albino offspring and breed them together or back to mom. This will give you a mix of albino offspring and those that are 66% het albino. At this point you could either breed them again to each other or mom OR try to prove they are not het Tremper.
Proving not het albino is easiest with a male so that you can breed him to multiple females (at least 3 females). You want to produce something like 40-50 offspring when crossed to a homozygous albino. If none of these offspring are albino then you can pretty safely say its no longer het albino.

 

[happysmile88]

You definitely don't make it sound easy (lol). Guess it'll take me a 2-3 seasons before I can get what I want.

 

[Zeetrain]

If you are looking for pure blizzards I know Golden Gate Geckos usually has a few for sale, she's sold out right now but at some point they should have some. Also I believe I saw one for sale on SaSobek Reptiles facebook page.

 

[RampantReptiles]

You definitely don't make it sound easy (lol). Guess it'll take me a 2-3 seasons before I can get what I want.

:main_yes:

In some ways it may be easier to just start from scratch.

 

[fl_orchidslave]

Although not easy to find, there are non hets out there. If you keep looking for exactly what you need, you can shave some years of aggravation off your project.

 

[happysmile88]

I don't live in the US, so that rules out acquisition from the states. I would need a lot of time and permits to have leos shipped to my country. Lets just say it may be even more aggravating to get the necessary permits and registrations than trying to breed out a non-het. The SS Blizz that's likely het tremp & eclipse cost me 350$, I feel like I paid a bit too much or I'm just that cheap.