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what is the outcome of breeding ablino to jungle pastel?

The albino is homozygous for its mutations - meaning that both copies of it's gene at the albino location have the albino mutation. Because it's a recessive mutation it needs both copies to have the mutation for it to show. It has no normal copies of the albino gene so will pass the albino mutant version of that gene to all of its offspring.

Pastel is the heterozygous version of a co-dominant gene. It has one mutant copy and one normal copy of the gene at the pastel location. Because pastel is a co-dominant mutation you can see the heterozygous animals as mutants and the homozygous mutant ones are different yet (super pastel). As a heterozygous animal the pastel has a 50/50 chance of passing the mutation on to each offspring.

So, from pastel X albino, each egg has:

50% chance pastel het albino
50% chance normal looking het albino