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What temp are you incubating at?

The incubation temps are not always responsible for the coloration of the babies. From my experiences the coloration of the parents plays a more important part. All of my eggs get marked when they are laid as to who they came from and a lay date when they go in the incubator. This season I bred a 1.3 group of albinos. The father was a tang albino from Tremper and the females were:
1 hold back from the same male the previous season
1 very clean (pink) tang
1 orange dark phase/chocolate (whaterver you want to call it)
Even without looking at the tape over the eggs I could tell by the coloration who they had come from.
The pic is one of my holdbacks that came from the father daughter breeding that was incubated female at 80-82 for the duration. Every one of my albinos, and other phases, were incubated at constant temps from day one. So now you have to ask, just how much affect on color does the "Tremper Method" have?

Uriah and Tina Walker

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Well I generally incubate at 82-84 for female, and never get dark albinos, though some are lighter than others. None of my breeding albinos are dark, they are all bright tang albinos. I don't use Tremper's method, I incubated this way before he even released that info. But I figured in retrospect they may be a huge diff. between incubating at 82-84 and 78-80.

Are your temps usually closer to 82 or closer to 80?

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