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we have a leopard gecko that looked exactly like an albino as a baby. Now that she has grown up, she developed the typical leopard gecko spots; however, they are brown instead of blace. I know that hypomelanistic corn snakes have reduced black pigment, not surface area wise, but just a lighter black. Because of that I was thinking that my gecko would be hypomelanistic...but all of the information that I can find on hypo leopards says that they have less black spots, not less black in their spots. If anybody knows what she would considered or has ever even hered of this phenomina please let me know.
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I'd have to agree that your animal is hypo. It's very common nowadays. A gecko with a reduced amount of black spots would be a "reduced pattern" and not a hypo as normally described in the herp trade.