recessive help!?!?!?!

[ColoradoConstrictors]

so i was looking on the leo genetic wizard and i wanted to get a super snow girl to breed to my tremper and all will be mack snow 100% het tremper right? yeah then i breed those two hets together and then i get 1/16 chances of all these geckos. and some will come out mack snow then some will come out het for mack snow. how are u supposed to tell if there het or not? and how would you label them when selling them. het tremper poss het tremper or what? please clear this up for me? i would appreciate it.

 

[RampantReptiles]

Mack snow is codominant, not recessive. Cannot have a het Mack Snow.
MS is 1 copy snow, Super Snow is 2 copy snow

 

[RampantReptiles]

SS x Tremper = 100% MS het Tremper

MS Het Tremper x MS het Tremper =
SS Tremper
SS het Tremper
SS
MS Tremper
MS het Tremper
MS
Tremper
Normal het Tremper
Normal

all non trempers would be labeled as 66% poss het Tremper. You can figure this since both parents are het its 66% het. If 1 parents was het it would be 50% het.

 

[Enigmatic_Reptiles]

Yes they will all be Mack Snow 100% het Tremper

When making that pairng and breeding the offspring together (Mack Snow het tremper x Mack Snow het Tremper) you will visually get Mack Snows, Tremper, Mack Snow Tremper and pos hets. The pos hets would technically be labeled as 66% ph Tremper, but the gene is either in there or it's not so it is a ph and you can not give any guarantee on them being het or not. You could also better your odds by breeding a Mack Snow het Tremper back to the Tremper...but it all depends on what you are trying to work towards.

 

[RampantReptiles]

Yep possible het is exactly that... possibly het or not. Possibly has 1 copy of the gene or not. Only way to prove the gecko has the gene in question is to test breed.

 

[ColoradoConstrictors]

i know mack snows arent recessive, sorry i meant mack snow hets

 

[ColoradoConstrictors]

and thanks for all the info! appreciated!!

 

[acpart]

Just to clear it up again: Mack snows, being co-dominant, can't be hets. If the offspring of a Mack snow doesn't look like a super snow (born silver/charcoal) or a Mack snow (born with black and white markings if not an albino or patternless or blizzard) then it is not a Mack snow, has no gene for Mack snow and is not het for Mack snow.

Aliza

 

[ColoradoConstrictors]

yes, thank you. i understand just worded it wrong i breed ball pythons and its the same way