Need help ID ing Retic ASAP!

[Thrill Cosby]

Got this retic from prehistoric pets, need help With id. It's tiger with some poss pets,some help with what the hets could be would be awesome.

[Thrill Cosby]

Sorry difficulty posting, heres pic and video on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/p/BUzOHIMh...n_nugget_scoon

[Tsubaki]

If you believe Prehistoric pets has send you the wrong animal you need to contact them. Although there is no visual difference between a Het GS tiger and a non Het GS tiger, if you think they might have send you a GS in stead of a tiger we could easily determine that with a picture.

EDIT: that is a tiger retic, why do you think it is a GS?

[Thrill Cosby]

Thanks, I did call them, It is tiger with het for a few different things. Just trying to find out Cuz I want to breed her in the next few years along the line.
If you look up tiger retic het gs, she looks spot on. She doesn't look normal tiger at all because she is het for 2 or more unidentified genes.

[TRD]

There's very very VERY rarely a difference between a het XYZ and a non-het XYZ. The only real way to figure out if your snake is het for something, is breeding it against that something. f.e. Het Albino x Albino should create some Albino's while Normal x Albino would create Het Albino's ... which would look normal but have the Albino gene.

Also, you say possible het.

[Andy_G]

Originally Posted by Thrill Cosby

Thanks, I did call them, It is tiger with het for a few different things. Just trying to find out Cuz I want to breed her in the next few years along the line.
If you look up tiger retic het gs, she looks spot on. She doesn't look normal tiger at all because she is het for 2 or more unidentified genes.

Hets do not reliably show signs of being hets. Sometimes there are "markers" with certain species and certain genes but they are by no means definitive in most cases.

[Azrt]

looks like a tiger to me

[Thrill Cosby]

Thanks yall. I'm a real relic morph noob, so I just needed some other opinions. really beautiful snake, huh? I'm just gonna find out what she's het for when I breed her I guesss, which is pretty cool.

[Azrt]

Who did you get her from?

[TRD]

Originally Posted by Thrill Cosby

Thanks yall. I'm a real relic morph noob, so I just needed some other opinions. really beautiful snake, huh? I'm just gonna find out what she's het for when I breed her I guesss, which is pretty cool.

You can't (shouldn't) find that out that way, you actually have to know what she is het for to breed her to something to produce that particular het trait.

To explain it fairly simple

Let us assume this is an albino: aa
And this is a het albino: aA

In the het albino the 'A' means that it is not visible on the animal that it is an albino, the animal will look normal. It does however carry the albino trait ('a'), this trait is recessive (A will overrule a).

If one would breed those 2 animals one would get: aa, aa, aA, aA

So, 50% chance to get albino offspring (f.e. there's a good chance that on 20 hatchlings around half of those will be albino, the other half het albino).

In case that a/A is unknown (ie- you don't know what the animal is het for) and you simply breed it to a random animal, chances are you do aA x AA for the trait. You won't get any special offspring.

Case gets worse with poss het (possible het). These might be het, might not be het, for a particular trait. Then you need to know the trait of the possible het, the % of chance this animal is a possible het, and breed this animal to another that for sure carries this trait. And even then you can end up with a clutch of normals because, well, it may not even carry that trait to begin with.

It's a bit more complex, because traits can be dominant or recessive, further complicating to breed a specific morph.

That's also why some specific morphs are worth a lot of money, they can be a combination of several recessive genes and chances to breed them may be very slim even under ideal conditions.

So for your own good, ask the breeder what the animal is het for, what the animal is possible het for, and what % of possible het, and whether or not this trait is dominant or recessive. Then make a best estimated guess on what would be a good animal to breed with if you want to pursue this course, and also be ready to be disappointed in case it turns out the possible het is not het for that trait at all and face challenges to re-home all your offspring.

Cheers

[ThirteenRavens]

Ahhh...I love genetics :>

[solidsnakemg]

To Dark to be a citron i see no shatter eyes are not dark so the rules out anthrax I dont see any markers on this snake that would indicate HEt any thing at lest not hets that i know of. If there was even a chance of her being het for something she would have been marked as pose het. That being said im sure there is a good chance shes het for something but i would not breed for that if i was you what ever you breed to her make sure the male is something very powerful like a sun golden or something with a lot of co-dom jeans you dont have. Or plan on making some hets