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IF I WANTED TO MAKE ORANGE ALBINOS, I CROSS AN ALBINO WITH A TANGERINE. THEN I WOULD GET A HET, WHAT DO I DO THEN? DO I CROSS THE HET BACK TO THE ALOBINO OR THE TANGERINE?

I'm not sure if tangerine is a recessive trait. If it is you will end up with all normals. They will be double het for albino and tang. Then, breed those together and you will get 100% tang albino. If tang is not recessive and is a line trait (i believe it is called) then its just random how much tang they will have.

tang is a linebred trait...Therefore the amount of tang you would get in the hets would probably be somewhere between normal and the color of the tang parent. Breeding them to each other might get albino tangs...but more likely you would end up with less tang as you bred through...though you might end up with some good specimens
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Christina

0.3.1 leos (soon to be 1.3.1!)
-0.1 tangerine het rainwater albino w/jungle background (Blinkers)
-0.2 jungles (Vahz & Skissor)
-0.0.1 albino (supposed Tremper)(Spitfire)
-soon to be 1.0 tangerine rainwater albino
1.0 australian shepherd/cattle dog (Foster...although he was being fostered before I got him...that has nothing to do with his name...It's after the beer!...lol since he's australian and I'm a college student!)

if you are asking me...then yes...breeding the hets together will get you some albinos, and probably tangs...although the tang will vary greatly
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Christina

0.3.1 leos (soon to be 1.3.1!)
-0.1 tangerine het rainwater albino w/jungle background (Blinkers)
-0.2 jungles (Vahz & Skissor)
-0.0.1 albino (supposed Tremper)(Spitfire)
-soon to be 1.0 tangerine rainwater albino
1.0 australian shepherd/cattle dog (Foster...although he was being fostered before I got him...that has nothing to do with his name...It's after the beer!...lol since he's australian and I'm a college student!)

Thanks Christina!

i apreciate the help, i was not sure who you breed to who. It looks like its going to be alot of gecko breeding to get the few albino tangs! At firt i thought that you breed the het back to the albino, but then the tang color would disapear. Oh well, if i have thought of it before maybe i wouldn't have started the project. Too late now!

jane

tang isn't a simple recessive trait...tang is line bred...which means the best tangs were bred to each other to get more and more orange over generations. breeding the hets back to the albino parent may get you some tang albinos...but breeding the brightest orange hets to each other should get you better tang albinos.
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Christina

0.3.1 leos (soon to be 1.3.1!)
-0.1 tangerine het rainwater albino w/jungle background (Blinkers)
-0.2 jungles (Vahz & Skissor)
-0.0.1 albino (supposed Tremper)(Spitfire)
-soon to be 1.0 tangerine rainwater albino
1.0 australian shepherd/cattle dog (Foster...although he was being fostered before I got him...that has nothing to do with his name...It's after the beer!...lol since he's australian and I'm a college student!)

......so then you mean breed the hets together?