Forum:Glass and Crhoma genetics

The glass and chroma mutations have raised a lot of questions for me. I don't see any particular pattern in the breeds posted that produce glass or chroma and it seems that people are discovering more combinations all the time. It is clear that once you have glass or chroma as a trait, it can be bred just like any other. I am more interested in understanding the parents and how they arise.

Here are my observations so far. For shorthand, say a non-glass frog that can pair with another frog to produce glass is an NGP (non-glass parent). Similarly NCP (non-chroma parent).


 * Observation 1. NCP's can be catalogued. I have a Black Floris Tribus (thanks Sexy Farmer) which breeds with a Cocos Aurum Adamantis to produce a Black Chroma Adamantis. I catalogued the Tribus and then bought a second. Now both can breed with the Cocos Aurum Adamantis to produce Chroma.


 * Observation 2. NCP's and NGP's can be bred. I have a Golden Picea Marmorea which breeds with a Tangelo Aurum Spinae to produce a golden Chroma Spinea. In my attempts to breed these two, I produced more Golden Picea Marmoreas and each of them could breed with the Spinea to make a chroma just like their parent.


 * I also have a Red Tingo Crustalli which breeds with an Aqua Callaina Zebrae to produce a Glass Tingo Crustalli. I was able to cross breed these two parents to produce an Aqua Calaina Crustalli and a Red Tingo Zebrae (so the colors swapped) and these two also produce a Glass Tingo Crustalli.

Here are some questions.


 * Question 1. Can NCP's and NGP's be gifted and preserve their traits. I am going to send on of the pairs above to Sexy Farmer to help try to answer this question.


 * Question 2. If I manufacture the specific breeds that work for me (eg. those above) Will I get NCP's or NGP's? In other words, if a given pair works for me once, will it always continue to work? The Glass page says "no," but I haven't had a chance to test this.


 * Question 3. If the answer to question 2 is actually yes, and the answer to question 1 is no, then is it possible that each player is assigned random pairs of breeds that will work and that the specific pairs that work change from player to player? If this is the case, then cataloging the working pairs would not be so useful.

Anyway, these are the issues that are interesting to me right now. I would love to read what others think.

-Zimcrat.