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What does it take to breed for one of these? Nobody seems to have one for sale.

>>What does it take to breed for one of these? Nobody seems to have one for sale.

The first albino hondurans were produced from parents at the extreme tricolor end of the continuum, so all early albino hondos were tricolors (similarly, the first hypo hondos appeared in Bill & Kathy Love's "tangerine dream" line of hondurans, some of the best tangerines available at the time--so all early hypos were tangerines).

Breeders bred albinos to the best tangerines they could find, kept the occasional tangerine hets for albino that resulted from those pairings, and then bred them back to each other--the tangerine het/albino babies produced mostly tangerine babies, and one-fourth of them were albinos, so that's one way to get tangerine albinos.

I took a different route, crossing outstanding tangerine hypos to albinos, to produce double-hets, some of which were tangerines. I kept the best of the tangerine hets for albino and bred them to each other. Some of the resulting albinos inherited the outstanding tangerine coloration from the "dream" line, and I kept the best male and bred it back to double hets. That's what's producing babies like the one in the pic. Those babies are also 50% chance het/hypo and 25% chance homozygous hypo (which would make that 25% of the albinos "hybinos".

By the way, we also bred the early tangerine hypos to the best tricolors we could find, then bred back, and that's what led to the tricolor hypos seen today.

These processes take multiple generations. So most albinos are still tricolors, and most hypos are still tangerines.

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terry