Normal x Mack?

[Khrysty]

If a normal (lavender phase) het Bell AND Tremper albino were bred with a Mack Snow bold stripe, what could their offspring look like?

 

[BalloonzForU]

each egg would have a 50% chance of hatching a Mack Snow, and if you are planning on breeding two different strains of albino to the same female they would 50% het bell or tremper (not recomended because you wouldn't know which it is)

Now as far as the stripe part of it would go you could get anything from normals, jungles and stripes.

 

[Khrysty]

the female i'm thinking of using is already het both bell and tremper. I didn't know this when I bought her and I really don't know what to make of it, or how it will come out in offspring..

 

[justindh1]

With the Normal het bell x mack snow you would have half mack snows het bell and half normals. IN the normal het tremper x mack snow then you would get Mack snows het for tremper and also half normals. I believe that stripe lines are incomplete recessive but not truly sure. If thats the fact then some will show a little striping.

I'm pretty sure this is right but if not someone correct me!

 

[Khrysty]

Are a Mack's offspring always 50% mack/50% (insert other morph here), or are there exceptions?

 

[Khrysty]

also..from what I'm reading, she couldn't be het both strains of albino, could she?

That's what the breeder told me...and if it's not possible, then is there any way of knowing which strain she has? Maybe in her offspring?

What are the differences in the albino strains?

 

[VTHokie]

No, she COULD be more than one albino, that just leads to a ton of confusion.

And one exception I could think of would be Super Snow x Snow.

 

[Khrysty]

Yeah, the SS x Snow was the only one I could think of, too. That's interesting.

What is the difference between the two albino strains?

 

[Wandering Paddle]

The difference in the 3 (tremper, bell, rainwater) albino (amelanistic) strains is where the respective mutation effects the producion of melanin in the melanocytes. If your female is het for any/all of these it wont matter if your male isnt heterozygous as well, so none of the offspring will show any of the albino characteristics. if you breed your female with other hets the outcomes would be very confusing

 

[Khrysty]

if you breed your female with other hets the outcomes would be very confusing

how so?

 

[Wandering Paddle]

how so?

Because if you get offspring from a pairing with that female you have a 25% chance that you will get another het for one of the albino strains...chances of getting het for both is 1 in 64(given that the male isnt het for one of the albino strains)... so suddenly people are pairing genetics that you cant guarentee and that you can't prove because you dont have another albino to breed her with... but if you really want to breed her i would stick with the snow or some other non het/homozygous albino.

 

[Khrysty]

Because if you get offspring from a pairing with that female you have a 25%chance that you will get another het for one of the albino strains...chances of getting het for both is 1 in 64... so suddenly people are pairing genetics that you cant guarentee and that you can't prove because you dont have another albino to breed her with... but if you really want to breed her i would stick with the snow of someother non het/homozygous albino.

alright. That makes sense. Thanks