Colour and condition Ornate Mastigure
How blue, green and orange an animal shows. This tracks sex, temperature, season and condition far more than ancestry — males in good condition and properly warm are the bright ones.
How it is produced
- Where it comes from
- This is not a single gene. It is produced by choosing which animals to breed, over generations.
- What that means for breeding
- No offspring percentage can be given for it. Breeders judge it by looking at the parents.
Offspring odds
No numbers for this one.
Colour and condition is produced by selective breeding over generations, not by a single gene, so no offspring percentage can be given for it. Breeders judge it by looking at the parents.
Worth knowing. No single-gene morph is established in this species. Colour changes with temperature, season, condition and sex, so an animal photographed at its brightest will not look like that on arrival or all year. Females are considerably plainer than males throughout.
What this rests on
Established by breeders through repeated crosses and recorded in community documentation, not by published genetics. That is how almost all morph inheritance is known — and it is worth saying rather than presenting it as laboratory fact.