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I have a question about cacatuoides triple red genetics. First it may be best to give you some back ground on why I’m asking the question.
I got a shipment of some very nice yellow bodied wild cacs from Peru. However the fish where order for some one and they took all the stock i had other than one female I missed so i desided to cross her with a Triple red to see if i could get the yellow body into the domestic strange. The F1 population turned out to be very nice fish with a golden but not yellow body and some red spots in all the male offspring.
This led me to be leave that the yellow body gene was a hand shaking gene as in one gene make the body a dark yellow or orange and with too making the body yellow (Yellow and Orange are very special colours as adding black to yellow will make orange and white to orange will make yellow. These are the only colours that this happens too.).
I had assumed that the red spotting found in triple reds was recessive gene and did not expects to find any spotting at all on the F1 population. As the F1 pop did show a little spotting I assumed that the female was carry a gene for some red spotting? The thing I am confused about is that that the F2 population do not show any signs of spots at all
What I would like to know is if the spotting found on triple reds is just one gene or if there are many genes that code for spotting around the fins?
If any one would like to see the F1 Males please let me know.
I got a shipment of some very nice yellow bodied wild cacs from Peru. However the fish where order for some one and they took all the stock i had other than one female I missed so i desided to cross her with a Triple red to see if i could get the yellow body into the domestic strange. The F1 population turned out to be very nice fish with a golden but not yellow body and some red spots in all the male offspring.
This led me to be leave that the yellow body gene was a hand shaking gene as in one gene make the body a dark yellow or orange and with too making the body yellow (Yellow and Orange are very special colours as adding black to yellow will make orange and white to orange will make yellow. These are the only colours that this happens too.).
I had assumed that the red spotting found in triple reds was recessive gene and did not expects to find any spotting at all on the F1 population. As the F1 pop did show a little spotting I assumed that the female was carry a gene for some red spotting? The thing I am confused about is that that the F2 population do not show any signs of spots at all
What I would like to know is if the spotting found on triple reds is just one gene or if there are many genes that code for spotting around the fins?
If any one would like to see the F1 Males please let me know.