Originally Posted by bluegeek

Tribble Breeding for the Impatient... Please correct me where I am mistaken.

Looking through the various sources, it seems to me that the goal of breeding is to produce a (Tuf), which in turn can be bred up to either a (Mat) or a (Ric). These two are the basis for any of the rarer (non-unique) breeds, yes? (And, incidentally, what you apparently need in order to breed up a Cryo-Tribble using Snow Tubers.)

It also seems to me that a sub-goal is to use the cheapest, most available food possible. I want to buy it or replicate it, not wait for a food item drop.

To get a (Mat), I see the following logical progression (leaving out the lowest tier of tribbles):

Species: Sus/Vit [Heal] -> Tuf [Heal] -> Hen [+Regen] -> Dea [+Regen] -> Mat [+Dmg/+Regen]
Food: (Ferengi Snail Steak) -> (Chateau Picard) -> (Chateau Picard) -> (Saurian Brandy)

To get a (Ric), it looks like this is a logical progression:

Species: Sus/Vit [Heal] -> Tuf [Heal] -> Nix [+Resist] -> Stc [+Resist] -> Ric [+Dmg/+Resist]
Food: (Ferengi Snail Steak) -> (Slug-O-Cola) -> (Vulcan Spice Tea) -> ((Klingon Gladst))

The drawback here is that Gladst is not listed as a vended food item, so I'm forced to wait for a drop or get it on the Exchange if I can.

Does this seem reasonable?

Originally Posted by nailpeter83

got a question i bought i Heart of Targ and feed it to my Highison hoping to get a Zinc. instead i got a dot. I tried again and got the same result is there something i can feed the Hig to get the Zinc. Also ( just for thoese that want to ask) it was in my inventory the Hig and the Heart of Targ were the only tribble/food in said inventory the rest thats in there are particules, and weaponds

Originally Posted by The_MadTom

You fed the wrong food to the wrong tribble.

Some higher food/tribble combinations:
HIG + Tulaberry Wine = YU
VEL + Romulan Osol Twist = NIE
DAX + Quadrotriticale = HAR
GRI + Klingon Heart of Targ = ZIN (the one you are looking for).

All those formulas seen in my table linked below.