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Here is one more shot of the babies. When I took the first picture only 2 of the babies were showing.

Well I guess we will have to call them 66% HET albinos.

Again the female is a 100% HET albino purchased as a baby directly from Bob Clark.

Here is the female the first time she was bred with the male albino. He bred her twice. After this time I kept the male albino very busy with 2 larger HET females. Because of this I was forced to use other males with this girl.

Here is the same female on her 3rd breeding with a VPI 100% HET albino male, purchased as a baby directly from Tracy Barker.

Here is the same female on her 4th breeding this time with another VPI 100% HET albino male, infact he is the brother of the other HET albino male.

Guess I will never know for sure who the daddy was. But we have to assume it was one of the HET albino males.

Um. . .I'm not sure you can call them 66% het albinos if you didn't produce an albino with them. Technically there 50% het albinos, but you said you bred her with an albino and she's 100% het albino, right? Well I see no albino babies, so obviously that didn't take, and the rest she was bred to were 100% het albino males? That's some bad luck I thought for sure the ratio was 1 out of 4 eggs is albino (er whatever recessive). There's always next year! G'luck with those little fellas.
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If the genetics of the parents are known, then those babies still have at least a 66% chance of being het. You can't expect the ratios to work out every time when you're working with such small numbers. The probability of getting 5 non-albinos from a het to het breeding is 23.7% - not exactly an impossibility. Even if the dad was the albino, there's still a 3.1% chance of getting all hets with 5 eggs. So it can happen...