If you want to get Crimson, you'll want to breed Malek with a cat that's showing something
no more dominant than Magic Kiss, as that's the most dominant eye that's (currently)
known to be recessive to Crimson. He's showing Crimson so any of his offspring have a 50/50 chance of getting it. By pairing him with a mate that's got Magic Kiss or more recessive, you'll know whether he passed it: if he did, it'll show on the kitten, if he didn't, you'll see either his hider (which looks like maybe Brushed Steel?) or the mom's eye.
If you pair him with a mate that has an eye dominant to Magic Kiss, you could end up with a kitten that shows the mom's eye, and you won't know whether it hides the Crimson or Brushed Steel.
Remember, "dominance" is a specific term that indicates a trait's order
on the dominance charts. Traits further up on the charts (lower row numbers) are dominant to traits below them on the charts (higher row numbers). For example, Magic Kiss (row 208) is dominant to Brushed Steel (row 210). This means that if one parent passes Magic Kiss and one parent passes Brushed Steel, the kitten will
show Magic Kiss, and
hide Brushed Steel. All cats (except Confettis, which get really weird)
only carry two of each trait; their dominant/showing trait, and their recessive/hidden trait.
This means if Malek breeds with a cat showing Faded Flower (row 211) and the kitten shows Brushed Steel, the kitten is Brushed Steel hiding Faded Flower (or if mom's hiding something more recessive like Deep Dive, the kitten could hide that instead!), and the Crimson is
gone. Of course you can always re-pair him with the same mate; there's always a chance he'll pass the Crimson, and it will
always show on the kitten if he passed it because a mom showing Faded Flower can't pass anything that's dominant to Crimson.
(03-30-2025 04:58 PM)Serena Stroikavskoi Wrote: It would depend if you are wanting the Crimson to be as an only eye trait. You can look at Cadbury Love to see if any offspring is showing a more dominant eye, which would indicate the hidden is Crimson. By "backbreeding" the offspring showing a more dominant then breed to Cadbury Love would ensure both the hidden and shown eye is the same therefore a pure Crimson eye.
Yes, this is how you make "pure"-traited cats. First you have to
know a cat is
hiding the desired trait (in this case since Cadbury Love is a starter, his showing trait is Genesis Evergreen so we know Crimson is his hider). Since Genesis traits are the most dominant, any of his offspring that
show a non-Genesis eye must necessarily hide Crimson (because if he passed Genesis it'd show).
Backbreeding such a cat to him will have a
low chance (about 25%, or one in four breeds) of producing a
showing Crimson eye... a kitten showing Genesis Evergreen is probably menagerie-worthy as you won't know whether it hides mom's hidden Crimson or her showing eye... but if the kitten shows mom's showing eye, that means Cadbury passed Crimson, so you've made another hider. If the kitten shows Crimson though, it had to have gotten Crimson from both mom
and dad, so both its "eye" traits are Crimson and thus it's "pure".
