Cross Morph

Hello everyone, I am new to this site and forum. What I wanted to ask is the following: I have a male bell albino and a female jungle phase - what would their babies be? Jungle Bell Albino poss het?

Hi there, welcome to the forum

Your pairing Bell Albino x Normal Jungle would make;

Normals all het Bell Albino.
All the babies would have a varying pattern due to the jungle gene.

I hope thats helped.

Hey Jordan,

Thanks for the reply! I am enjoying this gecko forum so far and look forward to learning all I can.

BTW, if babies are het bell albino does that mean that their babies may show the albino traits? I know the genetics side is very complicated but I would still like to try and understand some of the subject.

I see that you have quite a few leos - do you have any photos of them?

The babies do have the potential to create bell ablino's yes, if bred to another carrier of the bell albino gene.

But the Bell Albino trait is what is called a Simple Recessive Gene, and when a trait is recessive, then it need two copies of the gene to show physically (be albino, in this case).

SO, Your current Bell Albino Male, carries two copies of the gene therefore making it a bell, BUT when mating with another gecko (which doesnt carry any bell albino genes) it only passes on one copy of the gene, meaning the babies DONT turn out as albino's. and therefore are het for Bell.


and so because the babies are now carrying one copy of the gene, they then have the potential to create bell albino's if they were to mate with another gecko either carrying one copy or two copies because some of the babies would come out with two copies meaning they are bell albinos.
So any female babies, can be grown up and then bred back to the daddy, which will create bells.

I hope that was helpful and i didnt over explain it haha.

and i believe Jolene seems to have a lot more than me at the moment. She overtook me not long ago lol.

I do have some pictures of them on the forum somewhere, i will edit this post to include a link.

EDIT: one thread here: http://www.leopardgeckoforum.com/t15-a-few-of-my-gecko-s#92
and another here: http://www.leopardgeckoforum.com/t59-i-said-i-d-eventually-post-more-pics-so-i-am-now#92
and some more recent photo's of them here too: http://www.leopardgeckoforum.com/t282-the-set-up-at-sml#92

Thanks for the explanation and no, I don't think you over explained it. I now understand perfectly what heterozygous means. Awesome!

And your children are gorgeous! I will be uploading pics of mine soon. On that subject...I am too wary taking a photo with the flash on - how should one take photos of their leos?

How to take photos of you leo should have it's own thread. It will be easier for other members looking for that to find it if it had it's own thread plus it will keep this thread on topic.

Will start a new thread. This is the first forum I have ever joined so I am still learning. Please be patient with me.

Noted

It might be an okay idea to familiarize yourself with the forum rules, to avoid anything major happening.

Though you seem friendly enough, i doubt there will be any rule breaks from you lol.

Ok, so now that I know that I have an aberrant and not a jungle - what will babies be for bell albino male and aberrant female?

The same as what i mentioned BUT, the babies will have varying amounts of abberant patterning.

Guess for what, I live, eat & breathe leos so will prob not sleep much but instead ask you lots of questions! Sorry about that. Maybe last one for this thread...is it a good idea to breed babies back to parents?

you breed back to the parents if you want consistant type in your leos from my understanding on it. Jordan will be better able to explain line breeding leos to you than myself... if it were rabbits tho then I'd have all the answers