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what you would get if you crossed a tremper and a rainwater albino? Well I did, so I bred my male tremper tang albino to my female rainwater tang albino. And this is what I got on 5/30 (t.s. female).

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geckoville

well, i couldnt see the pic, but im guess you got a normal looking double het, right?

No, you shouldnt have gotten an albino baby. The Rainwater and Tremper genes are different. You should have gotten a normal dbl het. for Rainwater and Tremper. One of you albinos might have been not what you thought it was.
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Josh
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Or, one was a double het and you've got no idea in the world which type this baby is. Too bad, because she's a nice looking one. Where did your adults come from? I remember quite a few people were doing this type of breeding a couple years ago, like the Golden Gecko.

Now, unfortunately you could be faces with a year's worth of offspring you can't positively identify. Definitely all the normal looking hatchlings will be double hets, but you probably won't be able to ID the homozygous albino types til they get older.

AWESOME looking gecko, though.
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Rob Jenkins
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now thats beautiful. did you use the tremper incubation method? if not, i'd say it's a rainwater, being as most trempers ive seen are much darker.

At that age, you can't be sure of anything. I don't have any rainwaters, but I'm 99% sure you can't tell the difference til they get older, and then maybe not positively without test breeding. I've seen pictures of dark Rainwaters.
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Rob Jenkins
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tried to breed the two different lines together? And if so, what were your results. Since I hatched out an albino that would mean that my female is in fact a tremper line. I wouldn't have a problem accepting that if it weren't for her pattern. She just doesn't look like any other tremper I've ever seen.
And I'm sure that my male is in fact a tremper, that's where he originally came from.

I'll post an updated pic of her later this evening.

Your Female does look like a tang banded tremper albino. i say this becuase most rainwaters arent as tang as your female is, so that would lead me to believe that you either have a really nice rainwater or a pretty nice, but not that rare, tang tremper. The baby is really nice though!!
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Josh
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used the good ol' fashion incubation method. 81.5-83 from the 13th of April till the 30th of May.