Double Het Eastern Blue Tongues

[RoryBreaker]

A thread shamefully lifted from another forum.
http://www.aussiepythons.com/forum/gene ... es-196149/

Some interesting stuff going on here, thought others may want to have a look.

Cheers

[Richard.C]

Haha,litter of normal lookings,hets for this that and this i guess,i dont think they were expecting that

[Dakota]

He said he was if I read correctly..

[Richard.C]

Last few seasons hes been trying to breed for that pairing and wasnt sure what to expect,be interesting what the next couple of gens produces though

[Jeff]

Good stuff Rory. I'm sure you know that Roger is a little bit further along this path though!

[Richard.C]

I think roger was there before joe even had blueys

Roger just isnt as prominant online

[Pascal Paradis]

Actually he expected regular offsprings as he knew those traits are recessives. His intentions was to then cross the heterozygous offspings together to obtain homozygous albino x melanistic skinks .... which could be again normal looking skink I fear ... because excessive melanine+ no melanin would equal normal amount of melanin no? Doesn't work like that?

[Richard.C]

Im pretty sure roger got the orange ones joe mentions aiming to produce with the hets,if memory serves correctly roger calls them lutinos

[donkeybuff]

I think the double homozygous babies will just be albinos. If the albinism gene blocks the hypermelanism gene, they will just be albinos. If it goes the other way around, they will be hypermel+anery+axanthic (I think?).

[Fatal_S]

The difference will be the lack of pattern. The hypomelanistic skinks basically cover the skink in black, and then the albino gene turns that black into orange. So it will have the colours of the albino with the pattern (or lack of pattern) of the melanistic.

(I think).

[RoryBreaker]

Good stuff Rory. I'm sure you know that Roger is a little bit further along this path though!

I wasn't making any judgements, just thought this thread was interesting and worth a look.

A fluoro orange bluey does sound kind of cool. And fascinating that he got matings at 9 months of age

[Richard.C]

His first alb matings were with similar ages ones,he asked me if they were maybe to young,they were yearlings if memory serves me correctly ,i said if they are of a suitanle soze age shouldnt matter and he bred them

[Helikaon]

Whos Roger? Im obviously not up to date with this, i was sent a photo a whiel ago of a lutino eastern and it was a nice bright yellow but you could still see faded pattern underneath. I would love to see the homozygous double hets that Rogers produced.

[RoryBreaker]

Whos Roger? Im obviously not up to date with this, i was sent a photo a whiel ago of a lutino eastern and it was a nice bright yellow but you could still see faded pattern underneath. I would love to see the homozygous double hets that Rogers produced.

He goes by the username Pisces20.