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Another mixing morph question

skatecoupard Aug 05, 2006 07:51 PM

I bred a Carrot tail morf(male) with a jungle phase and one of the baby just hatched and i was woundering it the baby will grow up to be a carrot tail or a jungle phase?I also bred the same carrot tail with a albino what will the babys look like when they hatch?I also have two tangerine morf females but there not old enoph to breed yet but when i do if i were to breed them with my carrot will they be a mix of both carrot and tragerine? Also another question if i got an albino male and bred it with the albino female will the babys be albino?

"Sorry for so many questions"

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lefty82 Aug 05, 2006 11:34 PM

"Also another question if i got an albino male and bred it with the albino female will the babys be albino? "

The answer to that question is: depends on what kind of albino.

If they are both the same type (Tremper, Bell, or Rainwater) then the answer is 100% of the offspring will be albino since it is a recessive trait. If you breed 2 incompatible albino types, you will always get normals.
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-Kristin

0.1.2 Leopard Geckos
(Monet, Kumquat, and Tamale)

skatecoupard Aug 06, 2006 11:49 AM

Can you see what kind of albino mine is by the pic?

lefty82 Aug 06, 2006 02:35 PM

I don't know if it is possible to tell just by looking. If it is, I definitely don't know how. I'm guessing that you really can't know for sure.

The cheapest way for you to find out is to ask the store/breeder you got them from. If it was a pet store, there is a good chance that they will have no clue, but any breeder worth his/her salt should know these details.

If the source has no idea where they are from, the only way to tell (that I know of) is to breed them with other albinos and see which type of albino they produce albino babies with. That is time-consuming and probably very expensive, but probably the only way to know for sure. If you try this method, I'd probably start trying to breed with a Tremper, because they are the most popular. If the babies are "normal" looking, then you can always breed them back with the Tremper albino and you can produce albinos that way (because they will be het for tremper and het for another type of albino), but 100% of the babies won't be albinos.

If that doesn't make sense, just ask more questions
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-Kristin

0.1.2 Leopard Geckos
(Monet, Kumquat, and Tamale)

garweft Aug 06, 2006 12:34 AM

They will all pretty much look normal with different amounts of carroting on their tail.

The ones breed to the albino will also be het for albino.

The tangerine females will produce babies with different amounts of tangerine.

It all depends on the quality of the carrot tail and the tangerines. If they are moderate to low quality then every thing will pretty much be a normal or at least only sell as much as one.

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