Why Your "Perfect" Cappuccino Pairing Creates Runts
Pairing two Cappuccino crested geckos looks like a guaranteed win on paper. One in four hatchlings will be a Super Cappuccino , and that may be costing you more than you think.
TL;DR: Cappuccino is incomplete dominant , pairing two visuals produces 25% Super Cappuccino (super form), 50% Cappuccino, 25% non-carrier. Q: Is it safe to breed two Cappuccino crested geckos together? A: It's not confirmed-unsafe the way Lilly White × Lilly White is , Super Cappuccinos survive. But multiple breeders report higher egg-failure rates and slow-growing hatchlings from Cap × Cap pairings. The conservative default is Cappuccino × non-carrier: you get 50% Cappuccino offspring with no Super Cappuccino viability risk at all.
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