Xanthic Jag carrier pair spawn

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ia246;1665362; said:
The eggs have now hatched and the wrigglers are being moved into a pot (which is scarily close to the filter intake... lol) by the parents - they seem to be pretty attentive :)
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Put a sponge filter over the intake tube so the fry can't be sucked up.
 
that would be awesome if you got some xanthic jags. then you could breed them and we could get some in the hobby. hope all goes well
 
Congrats, hope fully you'll get some Xanthics out of this batch...
 
The xanthic jag carried the double recessive allele for xanthism, (xx). His mate was a wild type, so she would be homozygous (aka the same) dominant (XX). 100% of their offspring would then be heterozygous (aka different) for the xanthic trait (Xx) but appear wild type. Cross them (which has just happened) and you'll get a 3:1 ratio of wild type phenotype (what they look like) to xanthic phenotype.

The genotype (what the alleles are) on this spawn though is 1:2:1 with 25% being homozygous dominant (XX; wild type) 50% being heterozygous (Xx; xanthic carriers) and 25% being homozgyous recessive (xx; xanthic).

I love genetics. Best of luck growing the fry out. It would be a great accomplishment to introduce a new color morph to the hobby.
 
hope all goes we'll and you get some Xanthic jags !
 
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