What if I mix these two?

[yhbae]

What do you think?

Am I going to get a nice looking yellow with black tail or really ugly mix of yellow and orange with ugly fins?

(yes, I know both of them are famales - I do have males of both species as well...)

 

[Xavier]

who knows? but there is one way to figure it out. i forgot the name.....it's a type of table, like a chart and you line up the traits of one parent vertical and the other parent horizontally and you use letters like Ff an Bb and there's like a dominant gene involved and recessive gene. DAMMIT...i forgot everything from 8th grade.

 

[yhbae]

You are probably talking about dominant vs recessive genes? The only problem is I am probably dealing with huge amount of mixed genes for both species and there's no way for me to figure out which are dominant ones...

I guess I'll just have to try it out...

I've been breeding both types for a while, but I am getting a little tired of them, so instead of occupying multiple tanks, why not mix them into one, and free up the tanks for other species?

 

[Xavier]

I bet half will have a dark tail and half will have a red or orange one. all will have a light body. half will have dark fins

 

[yhbae]

Regardless of the colors, if they actually come out cleanly colored, I would be very happy. I have read about mixing different breeds of platies before, and when you do that, generally, you get very dirty combination. But in this case, it's going to be a mixture of yellow, light orange and dark orange so how messy could that get?

I'm going to go ahead and mix them to see what happens...

 

[MasterDrummer]

Its called a punnet square.
first youd find the alleles ( idont know how to do this)
thge alleles make up the trait
lower case letters are reccessive and UPPER case letters are dominant.
so if yellow was Yy and black tail was yy you'd make a chart



And then you cros it to find the probability

You'd have
2 Yy
and 2 yy

so you have to find the alleles of the fish to do it.

So its a box divided into 4
hope this helps

 

[cutechic]

I had a mickey mouse platy breed with a wagtail platy... half of the fry turned out to be mickey mouse platies, and the other half were wagtails, no mickey mouse- wagtails. The only difference was in the brightness of the fry's colouring.

 

[yhbae]

What colors were their parents? How did the colors distribute amongst their fries?

 

[cutechic]

I got the parents from a breeder, so the grandparents of the fry were the same type as the parents. IE Female mickey mouse had mickey mouse parents, male wagtail had wagtail parents. Some fry have more vivid colours than others, that's all.

 

[Colin_BC]

I've seen a marbled mix of blue on one half and orange/red/yellow on the other. The colours blended at the lateral line in a really cool way.

As for the punnet square and comparing traits, you have to bear in mind that a trait from many, many generations back can come forward at anytime. Those traits are not at all dominant, but they are still present. With all the breeding of platy's, anything is possible for colourations. I had a female blue platy that was previously kept in a tank of all blue platy's. A couple weeks after I got her she had fry. I managed to save 7 of them from being eaten (2 minute phone interuption cost 3 or 4 fry). Of the 7 fry, 2 were orange while the rest were all blue.

I personally think that the odd mixes of colours are much more interesting in appearance.

Colin

 

[Xavier]

Its called a punnet square.
first youd find the alleles ( idont know how to do this)
thge alleles make up the trait
lower case letters are reccessive and UPPER case letters are dominant.
so if yellow was Yy and black tail was yy you'd make a chart



And then you cros it to find the probability

You'd have
2 Yy
and 2 yy

so you have to find the alleles of the fish to do it.

So its a box divided into 4
hope this helps

punnet square was on the tip of my tongue. 8th grade.....so long ago

 

[yhbae]

Punnet square? I don't recall learning about it in my 8th grade... I guess I was sleeping...