First is a bell albino, second is an aberrant normal het bell albino, third is a bell albino. We'll need eye pictures to determine if they are eclipse. However, I don't see the classic white nose and feet of an eclipse, so if they all have normal eyes than they are not eclipse. All have a 50% chance of being het eclipse.
They look like they've got some nice tangerine coming in, though. Especially those bells.
Why are 1 and 3 so different looking if they are both albinos. Baby 3 is really light this pic does not do justice. I'll add another when I get home Baby one and 2 the pics are pretty correct in color
Also had someone tell me 2 and 3 were hypo which is why I stay confused lol Thanks Neon for responding
If the first one is really that light, than it could be a snow bell albino since you mentioned one parent is a possible gem snow. Maybe someone who works with gem snows could shed some more light on this.
As for them looking different, albinos can vary a lot. Some are really dark, some really light, some more orange than others, etc.
You won't be able to tell if the babies are hypo until they're older. Hypo just means they have less than 10 spots on their body. Likely they will develop spots as they get older and lose them again as they get older.
Neither of those bells look snow to me. So I would have to guess:
Bell albino 50% poss het eclipse
Bell albino 50% poss het eclipse
Normal/aberrant het bell albino 50% poss het eclipse
I actually don't know a lot about how giantism is passed down (I don't see why it wouldn't be polygenic), so maybe someone else can shed some light on that aspect.
All will probably have a varying amount of spotting, but you'll have to wait for them to get older to see.
Becuse genetics is complicated. They have each inherited a different combination of genes from their parents. Human siblings don't ever look the same (well except for identical twins), do they? Just because they are both bell albinos doesn't mean they should look the same. The trait they share is the lack of black pigment, but they both have their own unique traits controlled by thousands of different genes that are different from each other.
It's pretty cool, really. That fact is a lot of what makes breeding leos so fun. Even though you can predict the genetic outcome of your pairings, you still end up with a lot of cool variation between babies. Then you have babies that grow up into different looking adults and you might find a trait you really like and want to select for.
To put it simply, the reason the two bells look so different is that the lighter one has inherited a stronger hypo gene than the darker one. I would imagine the lighter one will have little to zero body spotting, while the darker one will have a bit more lasting pattern. I'd also bet the darker one ends up deeper orange than the light one.
Because hypo in leopard geckos is generally a selectively bred trait, and is effected by many different factors, you often see a variety of different degrees of hypo melanism.
What you are not seeing is any variation in degrees of amelanism/albinism. They either are or are not albino.