Sunglows

[TripleALeos]

Ok I want to try to breed some sunglows next season. I think im on the right track but I want to make sure..
This season i bred SHTCTB X Tremper Albino
So now I have Tangerine het tremper on 50% of those babies
So now I need to breed the tangerine het tremper to????? another tangerine het tremper???

 

[Tony C]

Yep, breed the offspring that show the best tangerine color to each other.

 

[Havik]

Wouldn't all of them be het tremper

 

[Tony C]

Wouldn't all of them be het tremper

Yes they would. I was assuming he meant that about 50% of the babies showed good tangerine coloring.

 

[Havik]

The best would be to incubate half for girls half for boys and line breed the best tangs to each other

 

[TripleALeos]

Thanks alot guys.. I am holding back 2 males and 2 females for next season.. Im still pretty new to all of this so i am really looking foward to seeing a "finished product"... Thanks again for the help..
Oh and I did mean that half of the babies were showing good color.. It was late when I posted that..lol

 

[leopardgeckos96]

SHTCTB bred to a Tremper Albino = all the babies looking like SHTCTB but are het for tremper albino then breed the baby back to a tremper albino or another tangerine het tremper and get

25% Sunglow
50% SHTCTB het Tremper Albino
25% SHTCTB

Correct???

 

[Tony C]

SHTCTB bred to a Tremper Albino = all the babies looking like SHTCTB

Not necessarily, Tangerine is a polygenic trait, meaning that it is controlled by multiple genes and will not have the "all or none" effect of a single gene mutation like Tremper albino.

breed the baby back to a tremper albino or another tangerine het tremper and get

25% Sunglow
50% SHTCTB het Tremper Albino
25% SHTCTB

Correct???

Close. You will get 25% Tremper albino, and the rest are Normals/Tangerines 66% possible het Tremper. The Tremper babies may or may not be colorful enough to call Sunglows, it all depends on how strong the Tangerine influence turns out to be. It may take several generations to achieve high quality Sunglows.

 

[TripleALeos]

I have several HTCT that are from the same mother as the tangerine het trempers. I have notcied that the HTCT have a deeper and darker carrot tail as opposed to the tang hets.. The tang het trempers carrot tail is a lighter orange and they have brown spotting on their heads that wasnt there when they hatched out. The tangerine/yellow bodies seem the same though.. Very bright and vibrant..

The first pic is a HTCT X HTCT
The second pic is Tremper albino X HTCT
Both geckos have the same mother (HTCT)