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Hey
I'm a newn to ball genetics. My question is if you have a het for caramel albino can you only produce them with another caramel albino het? What would happen from breeding a caramel albino het to a normal albino het?
Like I said i'm a newb so bear with me
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My question is if you have a het for caramel albino can you only produce them with another caramel albino het? What would happen from breeding a caramel albino het to a normal albino het?

you would get all normal looking babies, 50% possibly het for both traits.
it would take a few years to prove out,but you may end up with double hets for both traits.

Would 2 het for caramel albino produce actual caramel albino?

Carmel is a recessive trait so you need two copies of the allele to produce a visible carmel albino. With breeding a het carmel to a het carmel, each one of the offspring would have on average, a 1 in 4 chance of being a carmel albino.

Mark

>>Would 2 het for caramel albino produce actual caramel albino?

Each offspring of two het caramels would have a 25% chance of being a caramel. Whether or not you get at least one out of any particular clutch depends on luck and how many eggs you hatch but at least with two hets you have the chance.

Back to the question of breeding a het caramel to a het albino. Combs Reptiles is correct per the general assumption that albino and caramel are two different mutations of unrelated genes. However, I've yet to hear of anyone actually breeding the two morphs together to be sure. There is at least a chance that they are alleles (two DIFFERENT mutations of the SAME gene) and the results might be something other than expected, possibly producing 25% phenotype caramel that is genotype of a double het. Sorry to confuse things, probably best to just go with the generally accepted answer for now as it appears to be most likely to be correct and the allele theory is only an outside possibility.