About 2 years ago I got 5 albino hatchlings that were temp sexed for female. The odds said one would be a male... One was. We kept the male and 3 females. 2 on the females laid eggs. The smallest female was the first to lay and I had almost gotten rid of her b/c I thought "she won't lay". The very first egg hatched and I was so excited that I showed the baby to my husband w/o really looking at it. He kinda said "umm" and then I really looked...A Patternless! I knew all were albino so this was the elusive patternless albino which is what I really wanted...I guess they were Hets. What are the odds that the one male of the group would also be one of the ones that was het? I've hatched one more patternless this year and she's about to lay again. Here are some pics. The first is last years discovery and the second is this years.
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My Surprise...Pics
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This is this years baby...
If those "patternlesses" that you hatched had parents that were BOTH albino then it would be a patternless albino. Also, the female that produces patternlesses is a het for patternless to.
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0.1 "Tremper" looking Albino Leopard gecko (Lex)
0.0.1 tiger crested gecko (peachs)
1.1 Feral cats that we adopted (Fuzzy, and Bear)
that's exactly what she meant...she knew the babies were albino, she just didn't realize they were ALSO patternless until she looked closer. As far as being het, I think she knows the female has to be het too...she was just more surprised that the one male happened to be het as well.
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Christina
Leopard Gecko Morph Descriptions
2.3 leos
-0.1 tangerine het rainwater albino w/jungle background (Blinkers)
-0.2 jungles (Vahz & Skissor)
-1.0 tremper albino (Spitfire)
-1.0 tangerine rainwater albino (Bronx)
-ignorance is not to be punished when one is trying to gain knowledge...what scares me is the vast number of people who, when given the information to gain knowledge, choose to ignore it.
QUOTE: "...so this was the elusive patternless albino..."
Yes I realize that the female is also a Het. I was simply commenting as stinaUIUC suggested that it was amazing that the only male was Het in addition to the female. That's why it was so exciting to me. I wanted a patternless albino to begin with but couldn't afford it. I was lucky enough to hatch one instead.
I thought the odds were much higher than that when leopard geckos are temp sexed? A number I heard before was close to 98%
It depends on the exact temp. The most common "female" temp that I have read of results in about 80% female. If you incubate at a very lo temp to get all female, you are also more likely to have them not hatch. Same is true if you incubate at a very high temp to get all males. Most of the breeders I've read of incubate at a temp that results in about a 20-80 ratio of males to female.
