blindness

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Hi,
it seems to me that there are two distinct types of albinos within fat tails.

I have albinos from two completely different lines, one group is much more "pale" and a second group much higher in contrast.

The pale ones seem to be much, much more sensitive to light, I'd even say they practically don't see a thing even in low light and require hand feeding crickets or a bowl full of mealworms where they just need to dip their mouths to catch sth. I must add that they were not blinded by sunlight nor camera flashes. It could be a genetic problem but I doubt it as within this group, I have specimens from various long term breeders.

the second group, high contrast tangerines have very good vision even in light; they hunt crickets without any problems.

did anyone else observe this?

 

[LadyGecko]

Can we please see a few pics of your Amels of the different shades of color?

I also have different colored Amels-some lighter than others and mine do not seem to have any problem with hunting crickets when I feed them when there is light in the room

The only reason that I could think of for this is that the lighter ones do have more light sensitive eyes

Sandy

 

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example of a female

Sandy, this, although not a typical "low contrast" is one of my geckos with problems seeing anything in light conditions, whereas I have typical tangerines (albino) which see almost anything that moves. View attachment 16538 .

 

[LadyGecko]

Very pretty and unusual looking aft

My train of thought was that the lighter colored ones might have lighter/more red eyes but the pic of this sweetie shows nice dark eyes so that seems to shoot that idea down pretty quickly

I''M STUMPED
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