The Orangetail / Habanero Project
What can Orangetail add to the Habanero phenotype?
Bringing two different phenotype-selection backgrounds together — evaluating what Orangetail influence adds to Habanero-based genetics.
This project explores what happens when two different phenotype-selection backgrounds are brought together.
Professor Bitch represents Orangetail — a polygenic, selectively bred Hypo direction emphasizing strong red/orange influence.
Killua comes from the Habanero breeding group established by ImperatorMorphs. The Habanero direction — VPI + Hypo + Leopard — is credited to their program; Quantum Boas did not create it.
The question behind this project is simple: what can Orangetail add to the Habanero phenotype? The first litter is not the finished project — it is the foundation of a selection line.
The animals behind the project
Professor Bitch
Foundation FemaleFemale · 2021
Orangetail Hypo Leopard. The Orangetail direction — polygenic red/orange influence on a Hypo base.
Killua
Foundation MaleMale · 2023
VPI Sunglow, 100% het Leopard. From ImperatorMorphs' Habanero breeding group — the Habanero direction is credited to their program.
Professor Bitch brings the Orangetail direction: polygenic red/orange influence layered on Hypo, with Leopard in the mix.
Killua brings the Habanero background from ImperatorMorphs' program: VPI Sunglow, 100% het Leopard.
Orangetail is a polygenic / selectively bred Hypo direction emphasizing strong red/orange influence.
Habanero = VPI + Hypo + Leopard — a direction established by ImperatorMorphs, credited to their program.
This project evaluates what happens between the two rather than predicting a single outcome.
What we're selecting for
What can Orangetail add to the Habanero phenotype?
Offspring will be evaluated for orange/red influence, Hypo expression, Leopard expression, contrast, cleanliness, saturation and overall phenotype.
Potential holdbacks will be selected on both genetics and phenotype. Possible outcomes are never guarantees.
Possibilities, not guarantees — outcomes are documented as they actually happen in the timeline below.
The journal so far
Foundation pair established
Professor Bitch × Killua — two different phenotype-selection backgrounds brought together.
Where this project goes next
Take selected Orangetail-influenced descendants and continue building them into Habanero-based genetics — a selection line, not a single litter.
Part of a bigger picture
“Genetics tell us what is possible. Selection determines where we take it.”