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Does it matter breeding a male and female from the same "litter" with reptiles ? I know with cats and dogs etc that is a no-no.

Well we have limited breeding stock here so there is no choice. You can get some cool gecko's out of in breeding haha

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probably because they are line bred pedigrees

Well in cats and dogs there is a thing called co-efficient of in-breeding which determines how much line breeding has been done. Certain matings are acceptable at certain stages of a breeding program, others are not. But as a rule, brother to sister is definitely not the way to go - it drastically increases the chances of genetic problems; hence the desire for genetic diversity as much as possible with the 'odd occasion' where specific line-breeding choices are made.

Gene pool does determine what can be done though, and I recognise there are not many LGs in NZ. I dream of the day that MAF will wake up and agree to more LGs being allowed in. (naiive i know !)

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not the thread police just a lot of conjecture, the leps in question are not solely from a single male/female pairing

There was no conjecture on my part livingart - I simply asked an honest question about breeding leopard geckos. The question was not even in reference to any specific geckos :-?

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