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I know if you breed an albino to an albino you will produce all albino babies, But what if they are to different strands of albinos? A tangerine bell albino to a jungle albino. What would they produce?

There are 3 separate strains of albino leopard geckos (that I know of).

Tremper albino
Bell albino
Las Vegas Albino (sometimes called Rainwater albino)

A tremper x bell crossing would not generally give you an albino. Different genes are involved. A tremper x tremper or bell x bell will give you a tremper albino offspring or bell albino offspring respectively.

As for the tangerine and jungle patterns, those are line bred traits. They will be expressed to different degrees in the offspring whether or not the albino part is visible.

You said "crossing the different strians would not GENERALLY give you albinos", fact is uness you had a bell albino het tremper x tremper albino you wouldn't get any albinos yet all hets.
Xavier

My thoughts were that the het status for the other strain might not necessarily be known.

Hypothetically, think of the mess one would create if they tried crossing two triple het tremper/bell/las vegas albinos. It'd take a lot of breeding even of the albinos to figure out what the offspring were and those might be het for the other strains as well.

Hmmm. I wonder if a pure double or triple albino would look different than the others. More pure or just the same?

Could be that the different strains have strong trait linkage as well (located near each other on the same chromosome?) so it might be hard to put them together in the first place.

Anybody know the answer?