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Hey,

By any chance would anyone know why some albino females have normal colored eyes, and others have pink??? I was kinda worried about her babies lacking the pink eye coloring of most albinos, but so far all of them have had the traditional pink eyes... Incase it helps, the male that I've been breeding her to is a Hypo Tang thats 100% het for Tangerine Albino? Does this have something to do with her babies having the pink eyes? Or is it something else???

Thanks much too anyone that'll help me here.
- Richie

I hatched out an albino girl (from a albino x albino breeding) a couple weeks ago with normal looking eyes, while they have lightened up quite a bit, still no red within them. Here is a pic shortly after hatching

I think I am just starting to understand how this one sprung up, and once I am certain I'll let everyone in on it. Any chance you can post pics of your hatchling?
Thanks
Justyn
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Justyn
Intense Herpetoculture

I was always under the impression (from biology class) that "albino" is a rare genetic disorder where there is absolutly no pigment in the skin or hair and red eyes usually acompany that.

I didn't think it had anything to do with color patters that were made by breeders. But thats just me...

Albinism, also called Amelanism is the lack of melanin, which is the only pigment we have in our skin as humans. When you take that out, you get white skin.

In reptiles, however (at least in leos) there are 3 pigments at work - melanin, xanthin, and the red one(can't remember name). So when you take out the melanin you're left with the red and yellow patterns where they would've been and some sort of white/purple where the black was going to be. That's how we get jungle albinos and banded albinos, etc. Patternless Albinos have the added benefit of the patternless gene, which strips out where the pattern would've been in the normal gecko, leaving an all solid color (for the most part)yellow/orange gecko.

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Rob Jenkins
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Hi,

Thanks for all the replies. I really appreciate it. About the Pics. Justyn, I'm actually going up today to grab the USB cable thats need to attach my scanner/printer to the back of my tower, So I do plan on posting pics of all my most recent Albino Hatchlings... I've also got some real screaming Hypo Tangs and a couple of almost white Patternless babies that I'd like to show people... So yeppers, pics are definitely on the way...