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geckoguy14

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if i take a female from one of my clutchs and breed it to a male from another clutch both being from the same parents will there be a problems with genetics?
 

DrCarrotTail

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Breeding siblings or breeding offspring back to parents is called inbreeding. It's a useful way to enhance or fix desirable traits but can have side effects due to the limited gene pool. It shouldn't be a problem to do it for a single generation but the more generations you do it the higher the chance of undesirable genes being reproduced increases.

Here's a link to the wikipedia article on inbreeding if you want to learn more :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbreeding
 

geckoguy14

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thank you so do you think i should do that or no because my babys will most likely het raptors so i want to produce raptors.
 

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