Making Pairs?

[JdiLb]

I'm getting into the lizard world more and more, and it's a bit confusing compared to what I'm used to. Do you guys normally line-breed, or cross breed morphs/any to make new variations? I'm looking to pick up a nice pair of fatties at a show I'm going to soon, I'm just at some what of a brick wall - with dominance, recessive, etc traits. I'd like to make some interesting offspring but I'm not sure if I should try to cross breed different morphs, or cross breed say, caramel x whiteout zulu, then see the results and further complicate the genetics as the generations go on, for example
Season 1 : caramel x whiteout zulu
Season 2 : Result of 1 x 1 (line breed for stronger traits) OR say, Result of 1 x white sock
..etc, you get the point.
Obviously I'd have to look more into the dominance of those traits but just for example.
Or do you guys normally take morphs x morphs, or morphs x normal like this:
zulu whiteout x caramel zero = ?
Zulu Whiteout x caramel = ?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm quite confused with the dominance of these traits, I can't find much about what takes over what, what the phenotypes would be, etc.

 

[acpart]

It all depends on what you want to make and what you want to try. The genetics of AFT's as I understand it, are not as well figured out as those of leopard geckos. My suggestion would be the following;
--make sure you have a good understanding of what dominant, recessive and line bred means
--look at fat tail morphs and find those you like. Find out about each morph's genetic profile by:
asking questions on the forums
sending PM's to breeders that seem to know what they're doing
reading JMG reptiles' site which has good info
--based on the results of your research above, decide on a project you'd like to start with
--buy stock whose pedigrees you are sure of and keep detailed notes about what you're doing.

Aliza

 

[JdiLb]

It all depends on what you want to make and what you want to try. The genetics of AFT's as I understand it, are not as well figured out as those of leopard geckos. My suggestion would be the following;
--make sure you have a good understanding of what dominant, recessive and line bred means
--look at fat tail morphs and find those you like. Find out about each morph's genetic profile by:
asking questions on the forums
sending PM's to breeders that seem to know what they're doing
reading JMG reptiles' site which has good info
--based on the results of your research above, decide on a project you'd like to start with
--buy stock whose pedigrees you are sure of and keep detailed notes about what you're doing.

Aliza

Thanks. I know the terms from breeding other animals, I just need to ask more about which traits are which, and getting the profiles.