questions about breeding and chances of outcome

[ggallininmyhead]

i have several morphed bp's and have had many for yrs ,,, but just started breeding this year ,,, i talk to mike poores and jon mitchel every once in a while ,,, but havent in a long time so i was wondering if i bred my 100% het axanthic vpi proven male to my normal female what is expected to come out? do they fast during cooling season ? what should the temp. be and during the ovulation period what should i have laid out in their container? newspaper or a towel?

[ggallininmyhead]

i have many bps and have had many for years ,, but this year i decided to start breeding ,,, so now i have a lot of questions . for one , if i breed my 100% proven axanthic vpi m to my normal f , what is the outcome most likely ? do i feed them during cooling period? what should the temp. be ? and if i bred one of the juvenilles from this clutch straight to one of my spiders or pastels ,, would they come out as axanthic spiders or pastels ? or would they come out as het axanthics?

[infernalis]

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[dragunov.762]

ok i will try and answer as many of the questions as i can but i am not a BP expert.

the 100% het Axanthic to a normal should give you all normals with a 50% chance het (half will be het)

yes they fast durring brumation (the technical term for cooling period) and they should start their fast 3 weeks before you cool them down to clear their gut.

if you breed one of the ofspring to a spider or pastel you would get the same thing as if you breed a normal to a spider or pastel (het for spider and, someone correct me if i am wrong, but pastel is codom to normal i believe so 25% will be pastel)

[Swan]

If you have morphs already that are proven then why don't you breed them? Why try and add a normal when you already have pastels and spiders? Breed the pastel and the spider and make some bumblebee's.

[ggallininmyhead]

all my other morphs are still too small . the f norm is almost 3200 grams at three yrs , all my others are only in the 200 to 600 gram mark . i have obsessed the last month in a half on res. co-dom , and dom . so i understand the possibilities (other than hets. still figuring that one out) . the only thing is that i keep hearing from everyone that i need to fast them ,, then i hear i need to feed them ,,, all i know is that i have fasted them and cooled them like i was told at first. There are also people saying that you need to stay in the cooling period throughout the breeding, but then there are some who don't. We're just trying to figure out the best way to have a sucessful breeding.

[ggallininmyhead]

there all between 200 to 500 grams , my norm f is already over 2500 grams . she has been part of my family for 3 years and i want to let her lay a couple clutches and then i am going to stop after that with her . when i get this down all the way i am going to start breeding for killer bee axanthics . i already have a super pastel x spiders x axanthic vpi . you all are very helpful thank you , i hope to talk to you all somemore soon.