Question about the offspring from an accidental breeding

Khrysty

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As some of you have read in my previous posts, my younger sister (who is caring for my leos until I get home for easter and can bring them back to school with me) "accidentally" put my two year old 1.0 Mack Snow with my 6 MONTH old 0.1 SHTCT.

Though I'm really not expecting any fertile eggs from this pairing because she's way to young to have reached sexual maturity, if the eggs were to be fertile, what would the outcome be?

Would I have 50% MS and 50% SHTCT? I have a very limited education in genetics, which is why I wasn't going to cross anything and stick with breeding same morphs to same morphs until I had a better understanding, but with what I know, this seems to be the case, no?
 

acpart

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Statiscally, 50% will be Mack snow. Whether or not they are Mack snow, they will most likely have reduced spotting and some may be super hypos. Last season I crossed a SHTCT with a Mack SS and got a number of Macks that turned a dingy mustard yellow and lost their spots. The one I held back doesn't look like a mack snow at all, and is a nice light super hypo tang. Her first clutch with my Tremper albino just hatched and they are both snows. Who knows what they will look like when they grow up.

ALiza
 

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