11-20-2012, 11:10 AM
For you pum people, just some things I'm wondering about...
I have just become aware of the Cemetery Basti's polymorphism (is that a word? lol) and it is intriguing to me. So I have some questions...
As I understand it, this morph (or is it locality?) comes in green, orange, yellow, with some others like 'gold dust' being the rarity, and orange being the predominantly occurring color. (as an aside, is gold dust a light color with metallic speckles in it? That is how I imagine it from the name.)
I think it would be fun to have a breeding group that had the potential to throw a variety of the colors as each tad would be a cool surprise!
In the wild, it seems it would be possible for any of these to breed together, so that would be the norm naturally (for them to have the potential for offspring being any color), is this right?
I have only a high school understanding of genetics (and that was many moons ago) so please help me along here. If possible at a less than geneticist level :wink: (also, if the way I word anything makes it seem like I'm going for a particular color or something, that isn't what I mean either.) If it would be discouraged to breed in such a way, to try and get as much variation as possible in the offspring, please let me know and explain.
If this is possible, and ethical, approved of, in the hobby, how would I go about it, short of getting WC specimens. Would it require several generations of my own, and learning a lot more about genetics lol. to know the type of offspring that could be produced? or are there others out there that know the parentage of their frogs enough that it wasn't (genetically) like to like and the variety could be there?
I hope this makes sense, trying to make my thoughts clear, and I'm not sure I succeeded...
I have just become aware of the Cemetery Basti's polymorphism (is that a word? lol) and it is intriguing to me. So I have some questions...
As I understand it, this morph (or is it locality?) comes in green, orange, yellow, with some others like 'gold dust' being the rarity, and orange being the predominantly occurring color. (as an aside, is gold dust a light color with metallic speckles in it? That is how I imagine it from the name.)
I think it would be fun to have a breeding group that had the potential to throw a variety of the colors as each tad would be a cool surprise!
In the wild, it seems it would be possible for any of these to breed together, so that would be the norm naturally (for them to have the potential for offspring being any color), is this right?
I have only a high school understanding of genetics (and that was many moons ago) so please help me along here. If possible at a less than geneticist level :wink: (also, if the way I word anything makes it seem like I'm going for a particular color or something, that isn't what I mean either.) If it would be discouraged to breed in such a way, to try and get as much variation as possible in the offspring, please let me know and explain.
If this is possible, and ethical, approved of, in the hobby, how would I go about it, short of getting WC specimens. Would it require several generations of my own, and learning a lot more about genetics lol. to know the type of offspring that could be produced? or are there others out there that know the parentage of their frogs enough that it wasn't (genetically) like to like and the variety could be there?
I hope this makes sense, trying to make my thoughts clear, and I'm not sure I succeeded...
Lisa
In central NY
R. Imitator 'Cainarachi Valley' 2.3.0
R. Imitator 'Cainarachi Valley' Froglets 8 and counting.
In central NY
R. Imitator 'Cainarachi Valley' 2.3.0
R. Imitator 'Cainarachi Valley' Froglets 8 and counting.