How do you "prove" an unknown female?

bethanboys

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If you have a female who came from unknown origin, (Petco), but she looks like a pretty typical tremper albino - how would you breed to "prove" her or find out any of the genes/traits she might carry?

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okapi

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If she came from a pet store supplied by a major wholesale breeder then I doubt she is het for anything. Any normals from a wholesale breeder might be het for what ever albino that wholesale person breeds, but I doubt that an albino would be carrying any extra genes. If the store gets their geckos from a local breeder who was just getting rid of some hatchlings, then the chances are higher depending on what that breeder has and on their understanding of genetics.

You can breed her to a tremper to prove out the albino gene, but as for looking to see what she might be het for, you would have to get a male of each recessive trait and prove her out by breeding her to each of them one season at a time.
 

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