Chocolate Albino

Nynecho

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I recently came about to obtain a gecko for my brother as a pet, and though I thought he was a normal at first, I can now see he has no black coloring at all. His spots are all dark reddish brown that fade to pinkish. His eyes are brownish silver with dark red veins. Could he just have been incubated at a low temperature? Or is this dark form of tremper a genetic thing?

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The lady he's with is my blazing blizzard. I spoke on the phone with an experienced breeder recently and he said that he was positive that "Bullseye" is a "chocolate" tremper albino, and that he isn't sure if my blizzard is really blazing.
I am more sure of her being albino than I am of him, but just to be sure, after I test breed him to a super snow albino, I will cross him with "Ringo" by blazer. They already like each other, so as soon as she is breeding weight I think I'll make it happen ;)

If i do cross Bullseye to a ssa tremper, the mack snow albino babies (given he is a tremper albino) will be dark already just being that morph right? Or does the dark pattern have to be inherited from a dark parent? And will Ringo and Bullseye's babies be darker trempers too?
 

OhioGecko

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Your breeding plan to prove him out is good. The dark pigmentation is due to incubation or being kept a colder temps in the geckos first year of life. The darkness is not inherited from the parent, but I'm sure some geckos can display more darkness then others when they are cooled.
 

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