Leslie,

If I were to plan from the beginning, and if it is your goal to breed with limited money and limited time, and if it is your goal to raise them up for the purposes of breeding...

1. buy a female het...this year
2. buy a male albino...next year

Several reasons...
Most of the time, the males can breed when they are one year younger than your breedable female, if fed consistantly (I am not talking about powerfeeding).
Secondly, you will have more flexibility to use the albino male for other projects also.
Finally, I like to breed het females, whenever possible...you could loose a female during pregnancy (meaning, het costs less), and sometime, and only sometimes, hets are stronger than the double recessive form.

Good Luck,
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Dave Lee

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