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hi kerby,
i bred thes amels one is a lav.banded and other a whitewhite albino maybe lav.? i got 4hatchlings and i will post pics after shed , but it appears i got 1maybe 2 lavs the others being white albinos? does that sound rite? anyway thanks for any input,again ill post pics of the 4neonates after shed,,,,,,thomas

That you have 2 albinos that produced all albino babies. I do not think that you have a Lavender there. Lavender and Albino are NOT compatible.

If you breed a Lavender x Albino you will get normals that are double hets. No Lavenders and no Albinos.

Even if you bred a Lavender (het albino) x Albino (het for lavender), you would get Lavenders, Albinos, normals, and maybe a Lavender Albino (whatever that would like LOL). Your clutch just has albinos. Odds are, yours are just albinos.

They look different because your 2 albino parents, if not albino, would look like 2 different cal kings. For example: black & white x brown & yellow = produce babies that aren't the same, some black & white, some brown & yellow, etc..

Most albino cal kings as adults, are white with yellow bands. That is because yellow on a normal cal king will be yellow on an albino. If a cal king does not have yellow as a normal, it will not have yellow as an albino. A black and yellow cal king as an albino will be white with yellow bands. A black cal king with white bands as an albino will be a white cal king with a different looking white bands.

An albino high white looks different than an albino banana.

Kerby...

Both have THE SAME Albino gene.

If not albino, one would be a high white and the other would be a high yellow (banana).

So when breeding Lavenders, you will see the wide spectrum as well. That is what confuses people about Lavenders IMO.

A Lavender cal king that would normally be black & white is hard visually to tell the difference than an Albino as an adult.

A Lavender cal king that would normally be brown with yellow would like a Blue-eyed Blonde?????

Kerby...

thanks kirby for explaining i thought my male was a lav because of the lack of yellow he has compared to the female,but their both albinos.,,now im gonna have to get me some lavs and do the dbl-het thing sounds like a fun project take care,,,,,,,,,,,thomas