Hi i want to buy afew leopard geckos but cant find a calculator with what produces what
Atm im looking at a lavender mack snow to a bold bandit and or a lavender bold bandit any help or tips mych appreciated
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The problem with calculations like this is that many of the traits you see in leopard geckos are line bred polygenic traits. They aren’t guaranteed to be expressed in the offspring. If you take one line of tangerine and breed it to another they’re now considered a ‘cross’ and no longer pure lines. The same thing happens with Bold lines
The Mack snow is the only gene you listed that will fully express in about 50% of the offspring and can be calculated properly
If you breed a lavender to a lavender, the offspring are more likely to look lavender as well. You can still end up with some normals looking Leos, some that look like the parents and if you’re lucky, maybe one that looks better than the parents.
Crossing a bold bandit into anything but another bold bandit can result in mostly offspring that just don’t look as good as the parents. Even a bold stripe to a bold bandit can be a gamble because you may not end up with the same quality of facial markings or stripe.
But Mack snow offspring will be normal or Mack snow. If you have 2 mack snows? Normal, snow and super snow offspring. Super snows can sometimes have deformities in their facial structure though as a warning.
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