Guppy Heredity

[pepsiblue]

if the female gup is a fancy type and it mates with a blue metallic male gup, what are the chances that the offsprings will inherit the dad's or mom's traits? probability plz... thnx..

 

[theotheragentm]

Your assumption is that it is simple proabability, Mendellian genetics. I don't know if color traits are that simple. Can someone else verify?

 

[pepsiblue]

Your assumption is that it is simple proabability, Mendellian genetics. I don't know if color traits are that simple. Can someone else verify?

oh ok. thanks. i got it.... Mendel discovered that certain traits show up in offspring without any blending of parent characteristics.

 

[helterskelter]

If you work with line breed fish then there are simple rules.

ie pingu guppies geneticaly have very little colour gene's.
Cross and fancy coloured male with a pingu female and then seperate all the female fry and rear alone to keep them vergin.

You then cross the females back with the dad to hopefuly fix the colors.

Working with shop fish which have been breed with mant males are difficualt and you could wait a long time to find something u like.
but it's fun and I've tried many times myself.

Helter

 

[pepsiblue]

If you work with line breed fish then there are simple rules.

ie pingu guppies geneticaly have very little colour gene's.
Cross and fancy coloured male with a pingu female and then seperate all the female fry and rear alone to keep them vergin.

You then cross the females back with the dad to hopefuly fix the colors.

Working with shop fish which have been breed with mant males are difficualt and you could wait a long time to find something u like.
but it's fun and I've tried many times myself.

Helter

won't the fry get deformed or become abnormal because of incest? will there be another probability?

 

[helterskelter]

That's why u pick the best fish. for breeding.

This is how most line are created by pelecting the one's you want and crossing them back with parents and brother oe sisters.

Yes it's not the best thing to do, but if not the we would not have the lines we have know and we would have just wild coloured guppies which are quite bland.

With people how do not reject poor fish, this why you do get problems and deformaities and geneticcaly poor fish.