cute hets

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thought i would share some pics of my normal "het for raptor"s





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and a raptor female

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the hatchling with the orange head [#6 down] will probably end up looking like the carrot head with the stripe, who is just getting more orange by the day, i cant wait to see how their color will progress.

[geckogirl100]

I love the look o the sixth one it will be a beautiful adult ! U cant sell it u hav 2 keep that one for yourself!!!!! What are hets? or raptors?

	Heterozygous Heterozygous - the animal carries the gene for a genetic trait but does not outwardly demonstrate the trait. Example: A boa that is het for albino looks normal but carries the albino gene. When it is bred to another het for albino boa or an albino boa, a percentage of the offspring will be albino.

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the 6th one, a TSD male 100% het for raptor is currently on hold. the striped one im holding back.

het is short for heterozygous, meaning it has the genetics of a certin ressive trait/morph. like het for albino, doesnt look like an albino, however, if it is bred back to an albino, or another het for albino, it would produce albino offspring. hets are not visual representations of the morph, like how a line bred trait would show up. so if you bred an albino to a normal, the babies would LOOK normal, however, they would have the genetics to produce albinos. something like a "co-dom" or co-dominant trait like mack snows, you would have visual hets. like if you bred a snow to a normal, you would have %50 snows and %50 normals/pastels, and if you bred a snow to a snow, you would get %50 snows, and %50 super snows. anyway, raptor is a recessive trait, not neccisarily simple recessive, but not much is known about the genetics because it is still a relatively new morph.


this is a punnett square. if you took a science class in highschool or middle school, you should be vaugely familar with its uses and purpose.


RAPTOR stands for "red-eyed albino patternless tremper orange", and there is a female raptor pictured at the bottom of the first post.

here is a site about leopard gecko genetics:
http://geckosetc.com/htm/genetics.htm

	Heterozygous Heterozygous - the animal carries the gene for a genetic trait but does not outwardly demonstrate the trait. Example: A boa that is het for albino looks normal but carries the albino gene. When it is bred to another het for albino boa or an albino boa, a percentage of the offspring will be albino.

	Morph A morph is a color or pattern variation that is proven to be genetic. Common morphs include albino, anerythristic, gentically striped, Hypomelanistic, and many others. Morphs also include combinations of simple traits such as "Sunglow" which is Albino and Hypomelanistic. These traits may be recessive traits, co-dominant traits, dominant traits, or created through selective breeding (ie Pastel).

[geckogirl100]

Interesting . thanks

[Finghin]

#7 is my favorite. I love the tail on it. I think for my next leo I'm going to aim for one like that. Or a snow if they go down in price... grats on all the babies, do you have pics of the parents?

[Htdg666]

that last one is AWESOME.. god i need a better digital camera

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thanks. daddy is a raptor, these are the mommies:













and i have to get better pics of daddy, raptors are like.. next to impossible the photograph, theyre like albinos, only 10x worse.

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Originally Posted by Htdg666

that last one is AWESOME.. god i need a better digital camera

i currently use a canon digital rebel xt [350D], however, my powershot a95 took pretty steller pictures too [im a canon faithful], and for a power shot, its alot of camera for a pretty decent price [i think theyve dropped down to like 250. i paid 400 for mine when it first came out]

here are some older pics from my other camera