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I have found with my geckos, especially patt. that the temp in the tank really does not affect their color. One of my male Patt's will be on the cold side of the tank, but be as bright as he can get. The temp Tremper incubation method is interesting, but I have see too many low temp animals that are great color. I really believe the two biggest factors are health and genetics. It's funny when people talk about color change they rarely talk about health...Take Care,

Adam

I have found that to be true (just color and temp not incubation) with my albinos but my blizzards when on the cool side of the cage are WHITE when in thew warm hide box purple/grey
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1.3.0 Leopard Geckos
2 Blizzard females, pair of albino trempors male is tangerine
Turtles
1.0.0 Common snapping turtle
0.1.0 Belize slider
0.1.0 Egyptian tortoise
2 hatchlings on the way a blacknobbed sawback and a commonmusk

the blizzard turns dark on the warm side so that he can absorb more heat. albino coloring IS effected by incubation temps, if you incubate with tremper's method properly, your albinos will turn out with no brown or pinks, just whites. they look basically like t- albinos, which a true t- albino has yet to come about in leopard geckos. the gecko moving to the cool side shouldn't effect the temps, but if you take all the heating away for i'd say a week, the colors will darken up. my theory on the whole Tremper method thing is that t albinos get darker so that they can absorb more heat when not enough is provided. therefore if you keep them at the proper temps, 90 on the warm side and room temp on the cool side, they will have no need to darken up. i have nothing to back my theory up, but it just makes sense to me. have any of you ever thought of that?
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