Here's a pic of part of a clutch that hatched yesterday. i thought the pic did a good job of illustrating the variability of albinos from the same clutch: If you look carefully, you'll see there's one pale and one bright tangerine albino here, and also one pale and one bright tricolor albino.

the current theory is that the pale ones are the hybinos. but the diffs aren't always as distinct as in this group, and sometimes one i've marked "pale" before the shed becomes "pale?" afterwards, & vice-versa.

yes, i've test bred one pale one and it did turn out to be a hybino. But that merely proves IT is, not that all pale ones are. Gonna take considerable more work, i think, to prove out the theory--or to disprove it.

(these animals are from a triple het female X my 006 tangerine albino het hypo male. So they're 50% chance het hypo, 25% chance homozygous hypo (which would make them hybinos) and 50% chance het anery.

well, i'm off to the tampa reptile show, just wanted to get this pic up before leaving. if any of you make it to the show, come by and say hello.

peace
terry

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