What will i have next season??

[bogaman]

Hi guys, i got a pair of lg male shtct het bell and a female normal het bell and breed them last season and and end up with 2 sunglows (f), shtct het bell (m), normal het bell (f) and 2 bell albino (f).. Well guys my question is should i use their dad to breed them next year or shoud i use the the male offspring??
2nd question is what will be the possible morphs that i will get from them??

Thanks for the comments peace

 

[favrielle]

Well, I guess that depends on what you're going for, but also... from breeding het to het, the normal/hypo babies are not 100% het for Bell.

Reptile Calculator Results from this breeding:

SH het Bell (T and CT are line-bred, and thus not part of the calculator)

X

Wild het Bell

=

1/4 Hypo Bell

1/4 Hypo

1/2 Hypo het Bell

So, from this, your "normal"/"shtct" babies have a 2 in 3 chance of being het for Bell, or 66% het. That means your male baby is likely het for Bell, but also has a chance of NOT being het for Bell. If you're trying to produce Bells/Bell Sunglows, you're possibly taking a step backwards if you use him. Breeding back to the father at least guarantees that the father of the next generation is 100% het (proven by your first generation here).

That's just the quick and dirty take on it, though. If you wanted to, you could always cross your shtct baby male to his Bell sisters and prove out his het, and cross the sunglows and the normal poss. het baby back to the father.

 

[DrCarrotTail]

Favrielle gave an awesome rundown of the genetics you're playing with! I'd just add that proving the offspring are het or not het for Bell is best done with a visual Bell. With a visual Bell you'd have a 50% chance of getting a Bell if the baby is het. With another het, you'd have a 25% chance. If you're lucky you may prove them with a het but if you're not it is unlikely but quite possible you won't hit the 25% chance of a Bell even out of 20 or more offspring and you will think you have a gecko that is not het for Bell when it actually is.

Good luck whatever you decide!