Looking for help on deciding the genetics of my girl

[Nessie7]

I have a female wild type that bred with a GFP albino male. The young are a mix of GFP dirty lucies, GFP wilds, and regular wilds and dirty lucies.

What does that make these two?

 

[auntiejude]

Both parents carry leucistic genes. Your female doesn't carry an albino gene as you don't have any albino babies.
So your female is A/A D/d M/? C/? AX/?. Your male is a/a D/d M/? C/? AX/?. One, if not both of the parents are M/M - same goes for AX/AX and C/C
All of the babies will carry albino genes A/a.

 

[Nessie7]

Interesting, thanks! It's nice to know that they all carry the albino gene. I wasn't sure about that.

 

[Nessie7]

So from what I understand, if these babies (wild or lucy) were bred back to another albino then around 1/2 of them would be albino?

I'm interested in getting a copper female. Like the albino male, should this female be bred to an axie with no copper then I will not get any coppers from her but rather all of the babies would be het for copper, right?

I probably wouldn't breed her, but I'm curious about it anyway.

1. And an animal het for copper when bred to a full copper will produce around 1/2 of the young to be copper as well? Is this correct?

2. Can any color axolotl be het for copper? I've only really seen wilds that are...

3. When you bred a het copper to a het copper then 1/4 of them would be copper and 1/2 would carry the copper gene, right? The other 1/4 would not carry the gene.

I think I read somewhere that copper isn't really understood yet...

 

[auntiejude]

Yes! Well done!
Any animal can be het for copper if one of the parent was copper or carried the copper gene. I have golds and mels het for copper too.

 

[Nessie7]

Gold het. coppers? That sounds great. What's the genetics of a golden albino? They'd be D/d or D/D and a/a, right? I just looked it up on the genetics page and it seems my guess was right. Thanks for helping me get the hang of this genetic thing. I didn't really understand it at first.

Thanks for your help!

 

[auntiejude]

Yes, a gold would be a/a and D/-.
Genetics is hard, but once you have the hang of it..... people keep asking you questions!

 

[Nessie7]

Thanks again for your help!