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Can someone please explain to this beginer the difference between the hybino and the sunglow. I have seen pic of both and they are both outstanding color morphs but how do you make them? Are they both a cross between an albino and a hypo or is the sunglow something different? Please explain as I am interested in getting a breeding group and want to know what I should get. Thank you in advance.

Hybino is the selective result of breeding Albino's with Super Hypo Tangs. Sunglow is an Albino Hypo Carrot-Tail.

I could be mistaken, since I have barely worked with Hybino's but....it is an Albino X Super Hypo Tang right? It can't just be a Albino X Hypo.....can it?

well, sunglows are always more colorful than hybinos (according to VMSherp) but im pretty sure that most breeders use hypo tangs to found their hybino lines. And most albinos now days are brighter... It seems to me that high yellows have replaced the wild type as standard, and tangs have become very common, replacing the high yellow type as the "next step up". Then with all the outcrossing and breeding for brigher color, it seems that every morph except for the blizzard lines and snow lines are becoming more orange every season... And with all the big breeders focusing on breeding the eclipse gene into every morph (myself included), I forsee alot of tang color as the future of leopard geckos.

I have a friend who is trying to produce CT blizzards. He is using SHTCTs to make blizzard hets, and hopes that some of the orange color will be transfered to the next generation. Since some blizzards have yellow overcasts, it might be possible... I myself am breeding a raptor het with alot of CT to a patternless and a Double Het patternless albino. The goal is to produce red eyed murphy patternless albinos. And im sure that some of the tang color as well as the CT will carry over into that line once I get all three of the recessive genes expressed to create that morph. Point of this rambling? There is alot of tang in the gene pool and its being bred to everying.

-Daniel
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Leopard geckos:
3.7.4
(blazing blizzard project, giant blazing blizzard project, and Raptor project)
African Fat Tails:
1.2

Hybino = HYpo alBINO
An albino with reduced spotting.

Sunglow = SHTCT albino
An albino with no spotting and a carrot tail.

Both are the result of crossing albino bloodlines into the hypo/tang bloodlines. There is alot of diversity becuase of the polygenetic factors that make up the SHT and CT traits. The best with the lest spots/best color are bred togeather and 25% of the babies will be albino, and they will have some of the hypo traits. These are then linebred for reduced spotting or outbred back into SHTCT lines before being linebred again. Eventually perfect SHTCT albinos are produced.
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Leopard geckos:
3.7.4
(blazing blizzard project, giant blazing blizzard project, and Raptor project)
African Fat Tails:
1.2