Hi! I've never done a breeding project before, so apologies if some of these questions have obvious answers, but I'm not sure if I'm doing my project correctly.
So, a few things first-
All the pets (that I've kept) for the project can be found here. I'll link to pets when I refer to them but they're all found in that tab.
The intended result is this pet!
So now into my questions/conerns:
I'm trying to reach the goal by generating pairs of two with identical carried traits. However, I've noticed that these two refuse to give me G3 with any of their offspring. Is this just bad luck on my end? Is G3 just rarer than G1 or G2? Is something about the pairing method messing me up? I genuinely am not sure if any of these guesses are wrong or right.
Do I need to worry about the slight off-color-ness caused by having blue essences, or will that fix itself as the project continues? The paler brown on the M1 of some result pets vs what I want it to be kinda bugs me.
Is having multiple parents of the same traits needed? For example, I have one M1-M2 parent couple and they seem to be quiet successful, but should I have 2 or 3? Or is that just to speed things up and isn't necessary?
Again, sorry if any of these have obvious answers! Any help or even just some breeding tips/trick would be gladly appreciated! |
Welcome to the wonderful, often frustrating, world of breeding!
First off, for anyone starting out of breeding projects, I recommend reading Xavi's 6-vis Breeding Guide. This thread is full of how-to's and other tips for breeding a 6 visible pair from pretty much any starting point (can also be used to make projects with fewer visible traits as well, obviously).
As to your specific questions:
When dealing with carried trait parents, it's always going to take a little luck to have all of the parents' traits pass on to the offspring. This is because there is a 50/50 chance of getting either the trait or nothing passed on for each slot that has a carried trait (nothing signified by the "N" and the trait signified by the letters A-Z less the letter N). If you've heard of punnet square genetics, that is what Sylestia uses for its inheritance when breeding.
As you'll see with the guide listed above, it is actually suggested that you breed your parents with carries to parents with carries in different slots so that you get more trait slot coverage earlier. For example, if you breed your G1/G3 carried male with a G2/M1 carried female, even if you only get G1/G3/M1 carried, you now have a pet with three slots covered. By breeding pairs with the same slots carried, you're only working toward a 2 visible at best, and hoping to get another different 2 visible from a different pair, then breed them for a 4 carried offspring. However with the best case scenario of the G1/G3 x G2/M1 pair, you'd have that 4 carry in one generation, rather than two.
But yes, the G3 not carrying over is just bad luck. You essentially keep rolling heads instead of tails on the breeding coin toss.
For the off-coloured problem, the only way the colour will fix itself on its own is if you have pets around the right colour and keep breeding to those pets to 'colour correct'. The colour inheritance takes the rgb code for, say, the eye colour on each pet, then the baby can have an eye colour whose rgb numbers are anywhere between its parents'. If the codes are similar, then the baby's colour code will also be very similar. If the codes are drastically different, then the baby's colour code might look nothing like either parent's.
For example, I have this completed project:
 
And this is one of their offspring:
However, with the luffox breeding games, the same female was bred to these two males:
 
With these results:
 
The closer the colours in the parents, the easier it is to predict the colours of the offspring. The wider the gap between the colours, the wilder the swing can get.
As for having multiples with the same traits, that's really just to speed up the process. You can complete a 6 visible project with just three starting pets, as long as they cover all six traits between them (so maybe a female with G1 and G2, a male with G3 and M1, and another male with M2 and M3). How to do that is detailed in the link I provided at the top ^.^
Hope all that helps! |
