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i've seen this asked before but have never seen an answer that i've felt helped. i've bred a tremper and a bell albino (not knowing at the time). the babies came out normal looking albino x albino het crosses. if the babies are bred together, will their offspring be albino x albino visibly or will they cancel each other out?

what you got should be normals, all 100% het tremper and 100% het bell.
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1.0 Hypo stripe, Het RW from JL (BJ)
1.0 HypoTang from Crested (Apricot)
1.0 Tremper Albino from Petsmart (Cloud)
0.1 Hi-Yellow Leopard gecko from Petco (Beatrice)
0.1 Stripe female (rehabilitated rescue)(Pepper)
0.1 Jungle het RW hatched by me! (Jungle Bunny)
0.1 SHCT Leopard Gecko from Petco (Brite)
0.1 Tangy Mutt Leopard Gecko from Petco (Rainbow)
0.1 RW Stripe hatched by me! (unnamed yet)
0.1 Leucistic rescue (Lucy?)
0.1 Tremper stripe from JMG (unnamed yet)
0.1 SHCT hatched by me! (Blinky)
0.0.1 SHCTB hatched by me! (Sunny II)
0.1 Ball Pythons
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
Hatched: ~50 leos

If you breed the babies together, you should get (theoretically) 1/4 Bell albino, 1/4 Tremper albino, and 1/2 50% hets. It's kind of funny there's three lines of albinos though, isn't there. Anyways, have fun with the babies.
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0.2 Leopard Geckos (Fire and Mello)
0.0.1 Blue Tongue Skink (Smoot)

Your current "mutt" offspring are all positive hets for both types of albino (are you sure one parent or the other isn't Rainwater as opposed to Tremper/Bell? ).

When those offspring cross, you get a menagerie of possibilities.

Each offspring has a 25% chance to be one visible (homozygous) albino type. Each has a 25% chance to be the other albino type, too. Each offspring simultaneously has a chance of being het for either albino type. Meaning, you could wind up with a visible albino of one type that's also het for the other albino type. The offspring can't be visible albinos of both types.

Most breeders with project goals don't want double albino hets, because breeding subsequent generations will give uncertainty as to which kind of albino (i.e., the one a given project calls for) you're hatching. That can be a big setback to a bloodline.

It's important to note that, for the sake of pet animals, this couldn't matter less. If anything, here that uncertainty can be looked upon as a nice surprise. The important thing is simply to not misrepresent the genetic possibilities of what's being sold.

Hmm, apparently sarcastic smilies don't register in title lines on this forum - please know my reply title was tongue-in-cheek.

Also, in my third line where I mention offspring percentages, I mean the offspring of your current double het offspring.