Help ID hatchlings!

[owsley]

Snow being albino was somthing that dawned on me bout a month ago.. Was honestly just one day I was feeding him and went..hmmmmm are you albino..?How didn't I realize this...and I would agree that his hatch mate does kind of look like one of those darker albinos. I see some called cinnamon or somthing. Il keep updating pics. But appreciate any more opinions from others.

 

[owsley]

Few updated pics/info. I am convinced that they are both indeed albino. They are just a darker chocolate color. That being said I'm sure we did not cross strains after all. There is likely unknown hets at play tho. Snow does indeed have solid eyes, his hatchmate does not. I'm still very interested in what you guy think so keep the info coming! Thanks guys.

 

[Kristi23]

They do look very brown now, but those baby pics definitely look black. I have an eclipse that has dark brown markings instead of black, but he's still not albino. I would love to see better eye pics if you could get them.

 

[owsley]

 

[Neon Aurora]

Is that all the same gecko? From what I can see in that last picture, it's albino.

 

[owsley]

Sorry, first two pics are the snow with solid eyes, the second two are its hatchmate. Same with the above body pics, first three are snow, last two are its hatchmate

 

[Neon Aurora]

It may be hard to tell with solid eyes. I've seen a discussion on this forum about how hard it it to tell sometimes if the eyes are actually black or very dark ruby. The one without solid eyes looks albino, though, due to the silvery color rather than greenish.

Looking back through the pictures, I still feel pretty on the fence about it. Some of them look dark enough to be a light normal, and then some don't. The geckos look a bit thin, and that may influence the expression of colors.

You certainly have a mystery on your hands. The hatchling pics certainly look black, and so do some of the juvenile ones, but these recent ones look very brown and that eye looks very silver.