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I just found an albino gecko in a store that has some orange onher tail. I was wondering. would that be enought to count as a carrot tail? It is several spots but not a lot. I wanted to also know what I would have to breed her to, to get some babies with orange? Any help would be great. thanks ~Jennie~

PS. My gecko eggs just hatched. I have 2 little het for albino girls they are so cute. one has a circle and the other a small stripe.

As long as the carrotail is solid and not a bunch of blotches,
it should be a carrotail. Im sure if you breed it to another albino with the same type of tail, you should get babies similar.
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I don't have an answer for your question sorry. But congratulations with the hatching ones!
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NICK

If it's just a couple of spots and splotches than it's normal. Even normal leos can have a good amount of orange color on the tail.
I've used this pic before as a comparison and it's helped a few people.
The leo on the left is a tang, the one on the right is a super hypo carrot tail. There's a signifigant differance on the tail coloration.

Hope this helps to clear things up.

Carrot tail is a line bred trait, just like tangerine.

The only way to really get some nice carrot or orange on the babies is to breed them to something that looks similar or even better. Then there's still the chance that you'll end up with something almost normal looking. That's part of the reason that tangs and carrottails are so expensive still.