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Originally Posted by spyder79
Tom
For the sake of a good discussion I have a quandary for you. So breeding a directly bred trans line to another trans line (such as was mentioned earlier where a phantom trans was bred to a bbank trans) causes fairly severe issues within the offspring of the pairing. But if you breed a trans to a het or a het to a het and then breed one of the visual trans offspring to another visual tran offspring from a different het to het pairing would it then allow for a much higher survival rate of the offspring or do you feel you would still see the high mortality rate in the clutches (granted I think all but one dieing had a lot more to do with a very genetically weak set of parents and possibly some other issues).
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Well, I have been breeding them for 3 yrs. they have been in this country for, 5-6 yrs? So i am sure all that het to het from two clutches have been done. And its not enough time. But that gene is way past that stage.
Its also not so much a mortality rate. sometimes your talking about............ physical complications. Its why i want Matt to answer my question. He said he crossed a Trans to Trans. Maybe he would like to share his results.
i mean you can cross a trans to a normal, het nothing. and still have problems. its just in the gene! Dont get me wrong there are healthy translucent males and translucent females here that have 100% hatch and they all live, NO issues. Thats why there here. Certain gene's are weaker than others. some translucents have certain genetic issues. an when you take two genetic traits, with issues,(doesnt have to be just trans, just more prone to problems) then cross them together your creating more problems. you made even the healthy babies in a group like that "weaker" by crossing two weak lines. So your now going backwards.
I think the trans line has come along way. Awhile back the trans use to be like a dirt color brown, black eyes and milky scales, long, slender and skinny.
Now you have all kinds of different trans genes. trans, hypo trans, trans leatherbacks translucent silkbacks and hypo trans silkbacks. And there healthy. There more filled out. a stocky build oppose to a long and slender build. Not only that there in color! Yellow, orange, and red. So all that wrapped into a "weak morph". It pretty damn good. And its only getting better.
Attached a few pics of different morph translucents.
reg trans
trans leather
trans silkback
Tom