Hello!

We may be part exchanging some of our Bearded Dragons' offspring for a breeding colony of Leopard Geckos - originally 3 females (blizzard, normal, tangerine) and 2 males (albino, high yellow-carrot tail), but it may be 1.3 depending on if one of the males is sold separately. We were wondering what would you get out of this group when bred together, ie.albino bred with all 3 or high yellow-carrot tail bred with all 3?

Thanks!

Rachel

Hello,
This is going to be fun,lol. Lets see:


(Male-Albino) (Females- Blizzard,Normal,Tangerine)

Albino X normal = all normal in appearance,100 % het for albino
Albino X tangerine = all normal in appearance,100% het for albino
Albino X blizzard = all normal in appearance, 100% het for albino/blizzard

Tangerine is not a recessive trait. Normal is just that,normal.

The recessive traits are albino,blizzard, and patternless. These traits,whenever bred against a non recessive trait will give you hatchlings het for the recessive.
The others would require line breeding to create hatchlings of the same morph.
If the offspring from the recessive traits were bred against the parents,you would then begin to see some of the recessive trait.
Here is an example:
If an albino were to breed against a leo that is het for albino,the offspring would be 50% het,50% albino.
If you breed 2 albino hets against one another,you get;
50% het
25% normal
25% albino.
By breeding 2 het for albinos together,you give yourself a 1 in 4 chance of producing albino offspring. Those that appear normal are called 66% possible het,as there is a 2 in 3 chance that they carry the recessive trait.

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Right I get you! (after further explanation of your explanation from Joe )

So, which male would be the preferred male to get?- preferred meaning, would produce the most desired offspring for buyers. (As I said i'm really hoping for the albino as they are my favourite!!)

Also, just to confuse matters further - if one of the het. albino/blizzard offspring were bred back with the albino male, for example, would the offspring of that be 50% albino and 50% double het. or just 50% het. albino?

Hello,

I would go for the albino. The high yellow/carrot,when bred against the others,will have very little chance of producing the same type of offspring. However, the highyellow/carrottail when bred with the tangerine,could help enhance the orange coloration. It would be luck though.

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Hello,
lol! This answer may sound confusing,but here it goes. lol

That mixture would change things a bit. You would end up with:

25% het for albino
25% albino
25 % albino ,het for blizzard
25% double het

lol

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Haha!! I get it just!! So, you would be stuck not knowing which were the hets! But you'd get an interesting mixture!!

I'd like to continue this and confuse matters further We've had an email back from this person, the male that we would receive would be the albino (yeah!!) but he is actually a tangerine albino??? Does this exist? And if so, does this confuse the genetics matter further? (its late, i'm amused and tired!!)

We find out tomorrow for definate on whether we can get them, and the deal has changed, due to one male being sold, to the 1.3 for just two female hatchling Bearded Dragons, what a deal!!!

Hello,

I have heard of tangerine albinos,though I have never seen one other than pics. All this would be is an albino with some orange blotches or coloration.

I don't believe that it would change anything,though I may be mistaken. However,tangerine is not a recessive trait. I believe that will hold true for the tangerine albino as well. If you had 2 tang albinos,I suspect you could line breed to produce similar offspring. I don't believe that any offspring would be born tangerine albino though if they were bred against another normal albino. I am speculating though. I have never dealt with them.

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Thank you for that Rich! You have cleared things up nicely for me $$$$$

I will have to keep you informed on our, hopefully, new additions, though i'm not getting too excited yet as its a long way off. Fingers crossed though! And if this falls through, we'll just have to buy some more, with your genetics in mind

You can set up charts like the attached one for all recessive traits. A lowercase x represents a recessive and the capital X represents the dominant. If you have 2 lowercase, it will show that trait, 1 x and it will be het, no x and it will be a normal. This applies to all recessive traits.

Thank you for the chart erb0, i'm understanding this better, but what about double and triple hets, thats just far too confusing!!!

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