so, i have two sylvorpa and neither one of them have any carried or visible genes, but when i bred them, i got a sylvorpa with the gene blackcap jawfish, and i have no idea how it got that gene! any ideas? go to my stables to see which ones they are.

Carried genes cannot be seen unless the pet has been tested. So your parent pets probably carries something for gene 1, but you can't see it since your pets are not tested. Both parents passed down their genes, making the kid visible for gene 1, and thus you now have a sylvorpa with blackcap jawfish visible.

If you don't have a genetic testing kit, there are players who offer free testing services in the breeding forum. You can always ask someone to test your pet for you, to know what genes they really have.

I have a question about aging. I have a pet who's age says he is 28 days old but he is still labeled an adolescent. Any idea why he hasn't become an adult?

The age and maturity of the pet are two different things.

The age indicates the number of days since the pet has been created, while the maturity of the pet indicates what stage the pet is at. So when the age of the pet says it's 28 days old, it is only indicating that the pet has been created in the system for 28 days.

To know the maturity of the pet, you will have to copy the image url, and at the end of the url there will be a &maturity=___, where the number there indicates the pet's maturity in hours. The exact maturity of the pet will be shown only if the pet has been genetically tested, otherwise the maturity will be the hours required to reach that stage (ie 216 hours for adolescent)

For maturity, it takes:
75 hours - hatchling
216 hours - adolescent
648 hours - adult


The reason why maturity and age are two different values is because not all pets start at the same point. Especially when you find pets from the wild, the egglings and hatchlings are usually not at 0 maturity, and willl hatch/grow to the next stage faster than those that were bred.

Also, there are ways to increase the maturity of the pet. Nurturing increase maturity for egglings, page views for hatchlings, while using magical pies on adolescents increase their maturity. So often, the maturity of the pet is higher than the age of the pet.

However, when the site is taken down for maintenance and such, the maturity of the pets are frozen during this period to prevent pets from "growing up" during this time, and accidentally being released because players cannot get on to the game. So if the site is offline for a day, the pet's age will increase by 1, but the maturity will still remain the same.

Ahh ok, that makes sense, I wish that it was explained a little better through the site itself but you were very helpful thank you. I guess I'll just have to learn a bit more patience with my breeding projects.

Yah, lots of users got confused about that before. Hopefully the admins will improve on this when they work on the new site. =)

And you're welcome. Glad to be of help.
Good luck with your breeding projects!

wow.... alot of stuff to read through.....

The directions are detailed enough to understand, but yet so complicated...

I LOVE IT

is there any possible way to test breed your pet and someone else's pet? :P I would like to breed one of my pets with someone elses, but, I am unsure of how the possible results might come out

unfortunately, there is no way to test breed pets that are not yours. Players have suggested this before, so maybe some day the admins will try to implement this in the game. But as of now, you'll just have to take the risk. =P

oh that's unfortunate, well, thank you anyways, I went ahead with the breeding. can't wait to see the results! XP