Tangerine Double-Hets?

[DannyCrazy4Geckos]

I know that if you breed 2 different types of albinos together, you'll get normal double-het offspring. But if you were to breed a tangerine het tremper to a tangerine het rainwater, would you get tangerine double-het offspring or would they just be normal double-hets?

 

[Kotsay1414]

They would show characteristics of both parents, so more than likely you would get Tangerines.

 

[DannyCrazy4Geckos]

I probably should have done this before I asked my question, but i just made one of those punnet square things and my results showed that you should get about 25% Tangs, 25% Tangs het Tremper, 25% Tangs het Rainwater, and 25% Normal double-hets for Tremper and Rainwater. Depending on how much tangerine pigment the parents had, the Tang het offspring would have anything between normal and tang coloration. Correct?

 

[KellyTCS]

I think you are correct. But that's just off the top of my head.

 

[okapi]

No. Tangerine is a line bred polygentic trait. If you bred a tang to a tang you would get tangs.

A tang het tremper bred to a tang het rainwater would produce tangerine babies that are 50% het for both strains of albino. Meaning there would be a 50% chance that they inherited the mutant albino gene from each parent.

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

No. Tangerine is a line bred polygentic trait.

Exactly. You can only have hets when breeding recessive-gened (albino, patternless, blizzard) parents. Tangerine is a line-bred trait and is not recessive... so there's no such thing as a het tangerine.