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Okies, so I bought this girl a few years back at a herp show. She is supposedly a Het. Albino, female leopard gecko, and as I said in the pic gallery, I got her cause I felt bad for how she was kept.

Anyway, her coloration is different then anything I've really seen, no real yellow, though with the flash it looks like she is partially yellow....she actually has a bit of brown in her too.

I've had a guy tell be he thought she was not actually a leopard gecko....but what do you all think?

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Just figured other views may help.

Yeah...it's a leopard gecko. I'll just share a brief overview of how genetics works...and if I'm wrong, someone can correct me. You have two different types of traits in genetics...dominant and recessive. Then there's two types of "carriers"...homozygous and heterozygous. Homozygous meaning that they carry two same traits. Heterozygous means they carry two different traits. It's probably best explained in a gecko that carries the recessive trait. The albino, is homozygous recessive...meaning that it will show the recessive trait only because their genes both have the recessive trait. And normals...if they have both dominant genes...are considered homozygous dominant...meaning that they show the dominant genes. But since your gecko is Het. albino...it means that it won't show it because it has the dominant trait (and dominant always shows compared to recessive)...but it means that she carries the gene to produce albino offspring. In doing the Pennant (sp?) square...if it mates with another heterozygous albino gecko, the chances for producing the offspring are as follows: 25% normal, 50% het. albino, and 25% albino. I've tried to sum it up the best I can...so if you have any more questions...I'll try to help.