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I was ordering some animals yesterday, some leo's, and in talking to the vendor the subject of some of the albinos they had for sale came up. To me, they're just ugly, dull brown/tan animals. I assumed these were some type of difference in the three different types of albinos, possibly having to do with tyrosinase positive or negative, something like that.

The explanation was that these were f2's, second generation albinos and that the f2's go ugly. This makes no sense to me unless what's being called "albino" has nothing to do with a lack of melanin. What are these things, hypo, maybe some type of line bred mutation?

Is this unique to one of the three types of albino leopards?

Does this mean that all the babies from the f1's I've purchased are gonna be dogs too?

I've never heard of this and I did no small amount of digging to find the answer on my own.

Thanks for your help,

Tommy Carpenter

There are no such thing as a dull second generetion. As far as I know only low temperatures during incubation causes dull (chocolate) albinos.
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3.6.0 Leopard Geckos
0.0.2 Homonota Darwinii (Talus & Gracilis)
0.0.1 Tarentola Mauritanica (Pickles)
0.0.1 Cham Caliptratus (Clotilde)
1.0.0 Golden Retriever (Cafu)
1.0.0 Black cat (Felipe)
0.0.x Tenebrio Molitor
0.0.x Zoophoba Mario
0.0.x Lobster Roaches

This web page by Ron Tremper (of Tremper albino fame) has some info that might answer your question.

http://www.leopardgecko.com/color.html