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Help with morph percentages

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Can some one explain to me, what breed into what produces, we'll say albino, and what produces 100% hets, 66% hets, 50 % hets. I just don't understand breeding what hets will produce what hets. I see in the adds that people are selling hets and I don't know what they will produce or if I breed hets what they will produce. If anyone has a site I could go to or any info that would help me out, it would beappriciated.
 
The percentages are the statistical odds that the individual animal is a het.

het albino X normal
1/2 normal, and 1/2 hets. Since the hets are indistinguishable from the normals, they're said to be 50% possible hets

het albino X het albino
1/4 albino, 1/4 normal, and 1/2 het. Two out of every three normal-looking offspring are theoretically hets, hence they are 66% possible hets

albino X het albino
1/2 albino, and 1/2 hets (these are deemed to be 100%, since there's no statistical chance of them being normal)

albino X albino
all offspring would be albino
 
So it doesn't matter what percent I breed with what percent I will get the same or does the greater percent produce more of the trait.
 
Basically if it's a recessive morph (like albino) then a baby needs to get the gene from both parents to be homozygous and show the trait. So both parents have to at least carry one copy of the gene (i.e. be at least heterozygous albino if not a visible homozygous albino). The % tells you the chance that each parent caries the gene from their parents. In the end, it either is a het or it isn't, the % just tells you how likely it is to be a het based on the genes it might have inherited from it's parents. If either of your pair turns out to NOT be a het (misses on their chance) then you don't have a chance of producing an albino.

Now that hets are relatively inexpensive people generally buy 100% het males (i.e. for sure het) but might still buy possible het females since they are cheaper and you could buy several increasing your chances that one will eat well and grow up and breed quickly.
 
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