Question: Havent produced Black melanoinds

[Axolotlmama2014]

I Have had several batches from my Black melanoid and my Wild type but have had no black melanoids hatchlings why not ? thanks in advance

 

[keiko]

Your wild type doesn't carry the melanoid gene. The babies need to get it from both parents to become melanoid.

 

[rachel1]

Your wild type does not carry the black melanoid gene. Melanoid is a recessive trait, so they need one melanoid gene from each parent to show the melanoid trait. Both parents have to carry the gene for it to show in the offspring. Your babies are het for melanoid, so they are carrying the melanoid gene and will be able to pass it on to their offspring.

 

[Axolotlmama2014]

Thank you both I figured that had something to do with it , I have some babies I recently got that the mother was a golden albino who is a melanoid carrier if I breed one of them to my own babies would I get melanoids ?

 

[auntiejude]

Not necessarily. If the mother was a carrier only half the babies will carry a melanoid gene. You might have to try several pairings to find one that carried a melanoid gene. Or better still, cross your melanoid wih the albino's babies.

 

[Axolotlmama2014]

ok thank you

 

[Axolotlmama2014]

my wild type is a carrier of leucistic but I guess the same applies to getting any leucistics

 

[auntiejude]

Yes. If your wildtype carries a leucistic gene you should get 50% leucistic babies if you cross it with a leucisitc, or 25% if you cross it with another leucisitc carrier.

 

[Axolotlmama2014]

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