Why not cross albino strains?

[ducmar]

Stole from another thread, why is this?
"i should add that while all leopard gecko morphs can breed, it is not common practice to breed different albino strains together because of various reasons. the albino strains are tremper, bell, and rainwater/las vegas. so a tremper or het tremper should only be bred to another tremper. your girl isnt an albino so you can breed her to any male you want."

 

[MiamiLeos]

ok, so lets say you do. you breed your tremper albino to a rainwater albino. because albino is a recessive trait, all the babies will be normals het for both tremper albino and rainwater albino. now is that's not a big enough mess, if you decide to breed those two babies back together you will get normal babies, normal het rainwater, normal het tremper, normal het rainwater and tremper, rainwater, rainwater het tremper, tremper, and tremper het rainwater. now how are you going to tell what normal babies are het for which albino strain or which albinos are het for nothing? you cant. also, some of the albinos can look decievingly similar so you may not even be able to distinguish if an albino baby is a tremper or a rainwater. its really just a big huge mess of mutt gene geckos.


now, youre probably wonderin can i have a tremper rainwater baby.. well yes and no.. something about the albino strains just makes them extremely difficult to cross and have both genes be visible. technecally its possible but not plausable. i believe two tremper bell albinos existed at one time or another but to the best of my knowledge both babies had complications at birth and died. this is just what i know. others might be more informed. anyone else wana comment?

 

[snowgyre]

I know albino strain crosses were made at first to make sure the three albino strains were truly different. We now know they are.

Besides the complicated genetic mess you would get by breeding the different albino strains together, I also think it's a question of ethics. Why would you want to breed the different albino strains together? It's pretty unusual in any species that three distinct strains of albinism are present, so leopard geckos are pretty special this way. I think it's good to keep the strains pure.

 

[ang3l3s]

I know albino strain crosses were made at first to make sure the three albino strains were truly different. We now know they are.

Besides the complicated genetic mess you would get by breeding the different albino strains together, I also think it's a question of ethics. Why would you want to breed the different albino strains together? It's pretty unusual in any species that three distinct strains of albinism are present, so leopard geckos are pretty special this way. I think it's good to keep the strains pure.

+1 but to each there own.

 

[Sunrise Reptile]

This should answer your question. <= Click

 

[MiamiLeos]

This should answer your question. <= Click

yep, no to the mud babies lol

 

[paulh]

now, youre probably wonderin can i have a tremper rainwater baby.. well yes and no.. something about the albino strains just makes them extremely difficult to cross and have both genes be visible. technecally its possible but not plausable. i believe two tremper bell albinos existed at one time or another but to the best of my knowledge both babies had complications at birth and died.

If both babies died soon after birth, how did the owner know they were tremper bells? They could have been either trempers or bells with birth defects. Seems to me that the only way to be certain a given gecko is a tremper bell is to do a breeding test with a tremper albino and another breeding test with a bell albino.

 

[Ian S.]

Someone once told me that combining the three strains results in.........well............. see for yourselves.

The O.G. Furby. Gizmo!!! Woot!:clown:

 

[MiamiLeos]

If both babies died soon after birth, how did the owner know they were tremper bells? They could have been either trempers or bells with birth defects. Seems to me that the only way to be certain a given gecko is a tremper bell is to do a breeding test with a tremper albino and another breeding test with a bell albino.

yea that was my first question too. idk how they knew, i just read about it a year or so back. may have been a fluke i dunno. just what i heard.

 

[Ian S.]

:main_angryrab broken links!:main_robin: