Designer clownfish breeding, outcomes?

[Raazka]

Hi all! First, I’ll precise that my pair hasn’t started spawning but I’m starting to consider potentially trying to raise Clownfish fry in the future.

I have a regular male Ocellaris and an Ice storm female that have successfully paired up and ever since I’ve been wondering about outcomes of that pairing. Do designers clowns completely loose their colours when bred with regulars, does it just dilute their colours a bit (creating another kind of -storm clownfish) or is it 50-50?

Anyone have experience mixing designers pairs and raising their fry?

TYI :)

 

[MoshJosh]

I'm not qualified but. . .

Think it has a lot to do with genetics, both additive, recessive, and dominant genes. Getting desired outcomes when crossbreeding morphs can and likely does take multiple generations of breeding.

That being said, I would anticipate breeding a wild type with a morph will result in all wild types coloration with recessive (and not expressed) genes or a mostly wild type coloration with hints of the morph (genes not "adding up" to the "full morph". . .

Just spit balling here

 

[Raazka]

I'm not qualified but. . .

Think it has a lot to do with genetics, both additive, recessive, and dominant genes. Getting desired outcomes when crossbreeding morphs can and likely does take multiple generations of breeding.

That being said, I would anticipate breeding a wild type with a morph will result in all wild types coloration with recessive (and not expressed) genes or a mostly wild type coloration with hints of the morph (genes not "adding up" to the "full morph". . .

Just spit balling here

No that makes very good sense aha.

I’m familiar with freshwater breeding, for example Neocaridina shrimps will go back to their wild colouring + recessive red, yellow, etc. genes if the parents are different colours, however I read online that some designer breeds came from breeding two different designers and it gave a new one (Ice storm being a result of Black storm and Phantom pairs) so I was curious if it was as simple as that.