The norns were all doing pretty well. Uptight Kettle and Lowly Adjustment in particular were forming a great friendship, consisting mostly of chasing poor Five Cheese around. She didn’t seem to mind and kept saying “me happy”. Nothing to worry about here.
After my last entry, though, I set off to work on the Egg Tracker and Family trees and noticed something.
There were still two 2nd generation Grendel eggs left! I realized that if I didn’t hatch these two Grendel eggs, they might not get a chance to spread their own genes. Naturally, I had to hatch them.
This time, thankfully, I have the internet to help me.
This is Tuatara, son of Obese Bomb and Earthly Giants. This male to female ratio problem just keeps getting worse, doesn’t it?
Anyway, onto his genetics.
Tuatara
Emitters
Neutral – 90 39 0 Emb B MutDupCut 128 0 Organ# = 5, Creature, Sensorimotor, Permanently active, chem=Sleepiness, thresh=0, samp=34, gain=4, features=Digital (0)
samp is originally 35
According to CDR, sample rate refers to how often the emitter injects the chemical into the creature. This particular gene injects sleepiness into the creature constantly at a pretty steady rate and the original sample rate is 35. All this means is that the creature will be injected with sleepiness a little more often. This minor mutation shouldn’t hurt little Tuatara at all, just make him a little sleepy a little more often than the other grendels.
Negative – 180 Different in file 1 13 0 Adu F MutDupCut 128 0 Organ# = 11, Creature, Reproductive, I am pregnant, chem=Progesterone, thresh=128, samp=1, gain=2, features=Digital (0)
gain is originally 3
Since Tuatara is a boy, he doesn’t have to worry about this gene at all! Any daughters he has, however, do. The gain is originally 3 and gain is the amount of chemical that gets injected into the creature. Progesterone, the chemical that’s changed here, is the one that helps a female creature lay her eggs and prevents her from getting pregnant again while pregnant. Because it’s lower here, any daughters he has might have a harder time laying their eggs. Normally, I wouldn’t worry about this change except that Wide-Eyed Payment, my Grendel who had trouble laying her eggs, has this gene as well. I might try to remove this gene from the population by way of careful breeding, but I’m curious about how else this gene can evolve.
Anyway, if Wide-Eyed is able to lay eggs on her own (good-bye Preggy candy) then I’ll allow him to stay with the others.
Stimuli
Neutral – 443 44 0 Emb B MutDupCut 128 0 Play critter (86) causes sig=0 GS neu=0 int=0, ,,,0 => -25*Loneliness + 0*<NONE> + 0*147 + 0*<NONE>
chemical is originally <NONE>
This isn’t particularly interesting. Normally, the genes here control what happens when a creature plays with a critter. Since 147 isn’t used, this has no change.
Neutral – 449 54 0 Chi B MutDupCut 129 0 Reached peak of smell 16 (71) causes sig=145 GS neu=7 int=204, ,,,240 => -124*Comfort + -6*Fear + -5*Pain + 4*Boredom
Originally Degree is 128
This gene controls what this creature feels when he’s ‘smelling’ the grendel home at its strongest. The change here is in the “degree of mutability” or just “degree” in the Genetics Kit. This controls how much more likely and mutatable(?) the gene is. Here, the gene is made slightly more likely to mutate in future generations. Otherwise, there are no changes.
I should add that after looking through her genes, Wide-eyed Payment is an identical twin to Tuatara! That makes sorting her genes out very simple.
There! That was easy. Having the internet around to help makes this much simpler, anyway.
Moving on to our next egg, we have Viggo, another male. Looks like the boys really have to get those girls if they want to carry on their genes! He looks a lot like Impartial Relation, doesn’t he? Well, they aren’t related. 😛
Also, I’d move on to his genes, but I’m still having trouble opening Gene Compare and I’m just not willing to go through and compare his genes in the DDNA analyzer since it misreads the genes. I’m also not willing to compare every gene between him and his two breeds in the Genetics Kit. Sorry guys, maybe another time?
As if I didn’t have enough eggs already, Flawless Color decided that I should have two more eggs to worry about. Oh dear. It looks like Flawless Color is done laying eggs. So far (yes, I peeked) it looks like Elite Cap and Clear Glass are both going to be passing on their genes through Flawless Color’s eggs. A quick look at her genetics tells me that she doesn’t have the same problems laying eggs that Wide-eyed Payment does, either.
If the boys are lucky, they can have babies through Wide-eyed and she’ll be able to hatch them on her own. If we’re lucky, this bad egg-laying gene won’t be carried in her baby.
When I returned, AppleJack was sick, but a few lemons and carrots later, she was smiling at me again.
Meet Candice, everyone!
Hooray! Due to my own negligence, their second egg hatched. I couldn’t pick it up since it was still growing and got distracted again.
When I was done checking on him, it was time to teach him the basics. I tended to his education and, when his father finally left him alone, I fed him some carrots and I got him to sleep. He got to sleep much more quickly than his parents did, that’s certain.
I started by choosing a male closest to the color that I wanted. I bred him with F25, one of my females, and found that together they only produced one male that looked like this guppy.
The male from this population that I chose is brighter than the original male but I think I prefer this more vibrant red anyway. Otherwise I wouldn’t have picked him. ;D
This is our new male. He’s much closer to the original male and all of the other ‘ideal males’ that I’ve chosen from this generation look just like him. The population is starting to stabilize.
