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Both of these are yearling het albinos, around 1000g each. One is from a "hi contrast" line, and the other is not.

Gee, guess which one is which.

If you know what albino does (eliminates brown and black), its pretty easy to tell which hets will produce faded albinos and which hets will produce hi-contrast albinos.

To be a high contrast does it need to have both more intense yellow AND no yellow under the black? I’m thinking that it doesn’t mater how strong the yellow pattern is if there is also yellow bled under the black pattern it will not be the best high contrast yellow and white.

I'm guessing that your bottom pic is the high contrast one based on more yellow but I don't know how you can be sure it will not have some yellow under the black pattern or that the top one doesn't have dark dirtying up the yellow pattern that will not really matter once albino takes away the dark. I'm very interested in seeing more about how to identify het albinos most likely to produce high contrast albinos, especially with pics of the albino offspring to back it up.