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How you distinguish the three types of albino? I've seen the three different types at one time or another, but I've seen enough variance of each in pictures that it all seems a little blurry. Thanks all.

It's hard to explain, but if you posted a pic of each I could probably tell you which was which. If you look at enough pics and see enough of each then it is pretty easy to tell. Bell Albinos usually have pinker eyes, but sometimes it can be hard to tell. I have noticed that most Rainwaters have a lighter color, and a Tremper pretty much stands out. Trempers are usually the "tangiest" ones, although SFgeckos has some real nice rainwaters. Trempers are also usually the darkest ones. If you buy an albino, it is just best to get the breeder to tell you what strain it is. Also, bell albinos are just really different. If you had one, and put it next to a rainwater and a tremper it sticks out very easily. Hard to explain, but they are just different looking.
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well, some might have been het for albinos and the other albino. There might have been a cross between albino and another phase tht changed up the color. As you go to dif. leopard gecko sites you start to notice that their albino are actualy albinos crossed with another phase and they will call it the second phase and then albino so say for instance it was a cross between a hypotang and an albino it would say like hypo tangerine x albino. And since all these dif albinos have been bred together your getting dif. color albinos, its all gotta do with the genetics of the morphs making these things. Can get a bit confusing.

>>well, some might have been het for albinos and the other albino. There might have been a cross between albino and another phase tht changed up the color. As you go to dif. leopard gecko sites you start to notice that their albino are actualy albinos crossed with another phase and they will call it the second phase and then albino so say for instance it was a cross between a hypotang and an albino it would say like hypo tangerine x albino. And since all these dif albinos have been bred together your getting dif. color albinos, its all gotta do with the genetics of the morphs making these things. Can get a bit confusing.
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Your answer didn't really clear things up for me very well Josh LOL

Yea, well I tried. I know that I can tell the difference but it is hard to tell someone else how to tell the difference, if that makes any sense.
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Here are pics of my adult Tremper tangerine albino male, Rainwater tangerine female, and "dark phase" Tremper banded female. I haven't seen alot of the Bell's or the rainwaters in banded phase so this is the best that I can do.
The Rainwater (in this example) has very defined markings where as the Tremper's coloration has crept into the rest of the body. From the few Bell's that I have seen they tend to have darker markings similar to the bottom pic, never looked close enough at the eyes to see about the amount of pink. The darker markings though, can't be soley used to identify the Bell as you can see above.

Hope this helps out a bit,
Uriah Walker
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