Mixing Albino Strains

[Halley]

Okay, I’m not 100% sure that this is the right section for this or not.

Well anyways, I know that mixing albino strains is frowned upon. I was wondering why this is. It doesn’t seem to be all of that bad of an idea. I was just wondering if some of you could tell me the reason why you don’t want 2-3 albino strains mixed. I can actually think of none. Just curious and thanks in advance.

 

[thegeckoguy]

It can get very confusing when breeding. Like i though my male hybino was tremper and i bred him to a tremper and turns out he was bell. So, all the babies are double het. tremper AND bell.

 

[Halley]

So is it, that people don't want to do the test breeding?

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

There has been a LOT posted here on this subject on the "Morphs and Genetics Forum". Just do a search, and you'll read all about it!

 

[cassadaga]

The reason it's frownd upon, I think, is so we can all be sure of our pure strains. If everyone were to be mixing strains, after a few years it'd be difficult or impossible to be sure which strain you had. I personally think it's a worthy project for someone who has the time and patience to do all the test breeding required, and someone who could do it responsibly. Jodi Aherns had projects like this, and I believe he had a double homo of two albino strains.

 

[Nigel4less]

I mean honestly think about this way we would have to test breed EVERY Single Albino from those projects to see whether it was Bell or Tremper or Both so a minimum of 2 years of breeding. (Also lets not have another Albino debate just type in "Mixing Albino Strains" I`m sure you should get something)

 

[Halley]

Okay, I’ll just do a search, I guess I should have done that before, I posted. Thanks for your responses.

 

[eyelids]

Here's a scenario:

You [figuratively] cross a Bell and a Tremper in hopes of eventually producing a "Bemper"... You hatch more hets than you need so you unload the extras at wholesale prices to whomever... Even if the genetics are disclosed to the buyer not all buyers know or even care about such things...

Buyer X is just looking for a pet and takes home a male from you... A couple years (months sometimes) go by and Buyer X's interest in Leopard Geckos has increased and they'd like to try breeding their gecko... Buyer X really likes Bell Albinos and buys a couple females to pair with their male...

Several months pass, Buyer X hatches out a bunch of Bell Albinos and decides to sell all of them... Now there's a bunch of Bell Albinos that may also be het for Tremper Albino on the market... Any of them carrying the Tremper Albino gene will pass it on to some their offspring and to some of the offspring's offspring and so on... They will eventually cross paths and produce "Bempers", but nobody would know it since they never knew the Tremper Albino gene was present... It's not like people would ever say, "That looks like a double homo... You need to test breed it..."

What does all of this mean? It means that in 30 years their wouldn't be three albino strains (supposing somebody goes for the triple homo)... There'll just be one!

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Sorry everybody... I lost myself after the first few sentences, but decided to keep going because I knew some of you would get a kick out of this! :jester:

 

[jmlslayer]

Lol good story/theory:main_laugh:

 

[Rep-Tails]

:main_thumbsup: lol good job michael makes sense to me

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

lets not have another Albino debate just type in "Mixing Albino Strains" I`m sure you should get something

Thank you, Nigel!