but I'm referring to the extreme 1/3 you are talking about. They wouldn't have any hypo influence, just the extreme gene. If you look at some amels, they get red/orange/yellow tipping inside and outside the triads. I would imagine that you would see tipping outside the triad in addition to inside. I took a peek at my extremes last night. The ones that I would say are lesser extremes (or just expressing the extreme gene w/o the hypo if your theory holds) still don't have tipping outside the triad. This may be chalked up to refinement over the years as the hypos now rarely have heavy tipping compared to the hypos from years past. But I'd like to see, and may do it, an lower end extreme bred to the most heavily tipped counterpart so the hets should essentially produced tipped extremes over the next generation (when bred back).



For Jeff's Theory only (not creating a new name):

hybino (convential albino and hypo)

extreme (lav albino)

extreme hypo (lab albino and conventional hypo)

exbino (lav albino and conventional albino)

hypo exbino (lav albino, conventional albino and hypo)



So I'm saying take an extreme and breed it with a "normal". Get "hets" and breed them back. 1/4 should be extremes and I would expect that there should be some tipping influence based on lineage....but I'm saying there wouldn't be...at least outside the triad---nobody knows yet, but why is that?????



I am planning on breeding my Alvarez male (extreme hypo) to heavily tipped female (from Alvarez) that is het extreme poss het amel (conventional). Now if your theory holds up, that female should be poss het hypo, poss het extreme, and poss het albino. I know the percentage of the babies and all that could be potentially produced....just makes for an interesting potential year



typing this pretty quickly because I have to go---



I guess that is why I got into herps in the first place, for the science, lol



mgl

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