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I have been given so many different answers to this question so can anyone clear this up?

If you breed lets say a amel to a het clark will the baby be double het 100% for amel and 50% for clark? and or a purple clark with a het amel would it be 100% clark 50 amel?

And what dose happen if 2 different albinos breed??

Amel x het. clark gives you 100% het amels that are 50% het. clark.

Purple x het. amel gives you 100% het. clark that are 50% het amel

Two different albinos let's say a purple x amel will give you all double 100% het for both clark strain albinos and amels.

It's hard to say with 100% certainty what the double homozygous (amel x clark) albinos would turn out like. Logic would dictate this though, the lavender and purple are expressions of an amino acid (be it tyrosine or another protein), the amel strain makes that protein NON-functional, on that particular gene locus. If you add a non-functional gene in its homozygous form to the functional gene in its homozygous form, the protein would be non-functional.

Thus you would theoretically only produce white phase babies, and the amel, white clark strain and double homozygous could easily be mistaken for one another creating a slew of potential problems for retic breeders.

take care,
Jordan