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I just got this little guy from a friend he is a year old alittle on the thin side with a weird patteren they bought him as a "Albino" but they said ho started getting more brown as he got older.
If you want a better pic just ask and i will post another one.

heres another pic.

looks normal to me i could be wrong

Yea not sure looks normal to me just browner in color!

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I believe its a albino..dont know what strain, but if they ar incubated at lower temps it make the colors darker..hence warmer for brighter colors. I think ive heard those "referred" to as chocolates..but i dont think thats a legitamate morph just lower incubation temps on a normal albino. Still very cool I like the dark albinos

I'd imagine that's right. Being that the trait can't be passed on through genetics, that would mean it's not a legit morph.

>>I just got this little guy from a friend he is a year old alittle on the thin side with a weird patteren they bought him as a "Albino" but they said ho started getting more brown as he got older.
>>If you want a better pic just ask and i will post another one.
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It's a very dark chocolate albino.Witch is the result of incubating albino's at a lower temperature at around 82'f -(27'c).

Sorry, it's to black to be an Albino. I do know what your talking about with the Albino Chocolates & have seen them in person. My guess is it's a normal incubated at a lower temp & that is why it looks a little on the Melanistic side. It maybe a het. There can be some confusion with the heterozygous animals being sold as the morph there het for.

Funny but my guess would have been a chocolate albino also. Maybe better pics would help solve the problem

True, maybe better lighting and an eye shot to see the iris color.

Here is another picture. He has very nice gray/blue eyes. where all my other leopard have coppery eyes. Also as a baby He was yellow and pink when my friends bought him. I thought it was odd that he kept his bands. the other thing is i cant seem to get a good pic of his colors all his patches have a medium brown edging and a lighter milky brown in the center his yellow is about the collor of a well ripend bannana.

Here is another pic.

Ok, with this pic and the additional info I can see it being an Albino incubated at a lower temp aka "Chocolate Albino". I don't think it's unusual that it has retained it's banding. I've found Albinos often times retain there bands through out life.
I find it odd that the iris color being blue/gray like you said, I couldn't really see the eye clearly in the eye shot. From what I've seen the Albinos seem to have the more golden color iris and normals have the darker blue/gray iris.

I'd agree that is an albino, the reason it kept getting browner as it got older is that the temperature has the same effect on the gecko as the unborn embryo. Ron tremper explains it all in his new book and I'd bet that it is also Tremper line albino.
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