What If?

[cathis]

Now, this is entirely speculative/questioning, I woulnd't do this and don't know that anyone has done so on purpose.
Could someone breed a double/triple albino? IE, one that expressed two or more of the albino strains at the same time (not het, full on albino)? I am not advocating the mixing of albino strains, I am just wondering if it would be possible. Would only one strain (ie Bell) express at one time? Is there a more "dominant" albino strain that would show, and the other two would be.. umm.. kind of covered over by it? Is it possible (not advisable) to breed a tremper-bell-rainwater albino? I have heard that some combinations of genetics are inherently incompatible and will result in either no fertile eggs or egg death, but.. I was lying in bed on my way to sleep last night when I for some reason decided to ponder what a triple-albino could possibly look like.
Discuss (and it's still not a good idea, just a philosophical/genetic wondering).

 

[RampantReptiles]

You should read through the Muddy Waters sticky that is posted in this section.

 

[lillith]

It's possible, but there's no way to know what they'd look like. I have heard of people intentionally creating "bubblegum albinos" and "new blood albinos" that are double hets of sorts, but I don't know which strains they used, and I don't know what they'd look like visually. There's a post here somewhere about someone seeing the "new blood albinos" at a show in Canada, and the breeder who bred them could not answer which albino their geckos were expressing. I think that is the crux of the problem, that there isn't a visual way to tell what you have from double hets.

http://geckoforums.net/showthread.php?p=475652

Apparently, someone is still breeding them:
http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-pets-oth...OPARD-GECKO-MORPH-BlOW-OUT-W0QQAdIdZ295798581

 

[cathis]

I did read the sticky, but it seems to focus more on the Enigma issue, and the unnamed breeders mixing it up with 2 strains of albino. I would never breed more than one strain of albino (I only own Tremper-based animals) but it was more of a curiosity question. It seems the mixed-albinos are visually different from single-strain albinos but their visual albino morph is not immediately identifiable? So maybe the eyes would be Rainwater but the coloring might be tremper, etc?

 

[lillith]

I don't know if that would be the case or if it would be more like blue eyes + brown eyes can = green or hazel eyes. You could get something that is one albino strain and only het for another. Or you could get both albinos expressing and I don't think anyone knows what the visual markers for that would look like.

Maybe contact the Kijiji poster and ask for photos?? lol