Seahorse breeding: color error?

linksage · Joined: 19 Sep 2008 Posts: 112

I recently bred my orange dwarf seahorse (LS Mini Verdant #957552) with someone's orange zebra seahorse (Sunkist Seahorse #990400) , and the baby turned out brown (#1009805)

Maybe there's some oddity about color breeding in seahorses, but I didn't think there was anything that complicated here? ^_^" I was under the impression that if the two parents matched color, the baby had a 100% chance of being the same color. I could be wrong, but it seemed strange to me.

Seahorses are kind of hard to raise anyway due to their tiny lifespan and health requirements, so I'm going to be really bummed if it turns out that this kind of thing is normal...

Daisy Rabbit Mae · Joined: 17 Jan 2009 Posts: 1970

I know i can get the same color on rabbits. ex: smoke pearl netherland dwarf + smoke pearl netherland dwarf= smoke pearl netherland dwarf. so idk i think if u breed again it might work, but idk

koneko · Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 1883

SOmetimes animals will turn out the color of the other animal on the bloodlines. Try to find a brown on the parents bloodlines

linksage · Joined: 19 Sep 2008 Posts: 112

Merf. I bred the same pair and got another brown. This has never happened before in my experience. You sure it's normal? I'm not exactly new at breeding. This would be a third/fourth generation seahorse from my own line, and I've never had the color turn out to be something other than one of the parents.

koneko · Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 1883

It is rare, it has happened to me before with some goats

NeverwinterCC · Joined: 14 Apr 2009 Posts: 246

happened with koi!

silver & black + same = end. color.

My mom had it happen in pigeons too, they came out blue crested!