mbenjamin16 Posted August 14, 2015 Report Share Posted August 14, 2015 I will be getting 2 pintos and a blue bolt from Blue crown aquatics and I was wondering if I breed the pintos to my Tibee will i have a chance of getting more pintos if they end up being the same sex when they mature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miwu Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 It depends on whether your tibees have a copy of the Taiwan bee gene. If one of its parents is a Taiwan bee (BKK, wine red, blue bolt, pinto, etc.), then it does. If one or both of the parents have one copy of the Taiwan bee gene, the offspring possibly has a copy of the Taiwan bee gene. If both parents are either tigers, CRS/CBS, or tibees with no Taiwan bee genes, then it'll just be a tibee with no Taiwan bee gene. And yes, if your tibee has a copy of the Taiwan bee gene, it can produce more pintos if crossed with a pinto. There will be no guarantee since pintos are a combination of Taiwan bee (so you need two copies of Taiwan bee gene in a shrimp) and tiger (this is thought to be not controlled by a single gene but a set of genes, meaning the trait is polygenetic) that affects the expression of tiger patterns, ranging from no pattern to striping to spotting to "galaxy" to skunk to everything in between and all compatible combinations. mayphly and mbenjamin16 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbenjamin16 Posted August 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 It depends on whether your tibees have a copy of the Taiwan bee gene. If one of its parents is a Taiwan bee (BKK, wine red, blue bolt, pinto, etc.), then it does. If one or both of the parents have one copy of the Taiwan bee gene, the offspring possibly has a copy of the Taiwan bee gene. If both parents are either tigers, CRS/CBS, or tibees with no Taiwan bee genes, then it'll just be a tibee with no Taiwan bee gene. And yes, if your tibee has a copy of the Taiwan bee gene, it can produce more pintos if crossed with a pinto. There will be no guarantee since pintos are a combination of Taiwan bee (so you need two copies of Taiwan bee gene in a shrimp) and tiger (this is thought to be not controlled by a single gene but a set of genes, meaning the trait is polygenetic) that affects the expression of tiger patterns, ranging from no pattern to striping to spotting to "galaxy" to skunk to everything in between and all compatible combinations. Thank you for this info it was very helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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