Again, I was specifically referring to existing/current reproductive adult females in my collection most of which are between 8 and 15 years old. I see zero value in putting those animals through the stress of an unnecessary vet visit when most of them will die in my care without ever leaving it. What purpose would it serve to chip those animals? If I were to sell one, I see no problem chipping it at that point, it’s going endure the stress of a location/husbandry change then anyway. Chipping adult animals who are never going to leave my very rural home seems frivolous to me.
More than once I have said I don’t have a problem with doing it to hatchlings/juveniles etc.
My dwarf retic is the size of a subadult corn snake. My vet used a smaller version of the chip used on dogs. I havent seen any problems so far… It doesnt seem to bother the snake at all . LOL my chipped reptiles are registeted with Home Again
I would for sure pay $20 to identify a possible het female before I spend maybe 3+ years and hundreds of $ trying to raise her up and prove her. Hopefully they can get clown and desert ghost.
Any thoughts on if they might be able to screen for multiple genes at the same time perhaps even cheaper than $20 per gene? At least in my case the possible hets are being created as part of projects to combine as many recessive genes as possible.
Interesting they are doing some non recessive testing; assuming because of academic curiosity or perhaps having a clue where to look. I actually struggle often with ID of multi visual snakes so can’t rule out ever wanting to test for say chocolate.
Send them representative sheds. The more they have to work with, the more likely they can find it
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You can certainly screen for multiple genes, but each would be it’s own reaction so I do not see a huge price drop happening because you still need to cover costs of reagents and consumables and machine use and labour.
There are some ways you can combine tests in to a single reaction, but reagents for those are a bit more costly so, again, I do not see a significant price offset
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I do have a couple visual clowns now so could help with that but no desert ghost anytime soon. Are they more interested in homozygous than heterozygous sheds?
So I guess they are not doing the 23andMe model where they get shotgun results and can even sell you updates later as new genes are identified.
They will take anything - homozygous, heterozygous, poss het - so long as it is properly labeled
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23&Me is done a bit differently and also benefits from a monstrous database of genetic info. If we had the depth and breadth of knowledge and coverage of the ball genome that we have for the human genome then a $200 “complete” panel would be possible
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