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my 4 eggs just hatched from an albino tri color male by a tang.het got 1 alb tri,1 alb tang,1 norm-het tri,1 norm-het tang. question is my tangerine are not the brilliant Dream phase but somewhere in the middle of tri /tang.i believe yellow instead of white . any pics w/ definition could help
is this a tangerine or is tangerine the ORANGE ones

in my opinion, tangerines are the animals at one end of the continuum, tricolors at the other, and there are animals in between because it's not an either-or situation. Personally, I categorize my albinos as tangerines, tricolors, and "semi-tangerine," the latter just being a catch phrase for the in-betweens. To me, a tangerine has to have colors that approximate each other, in exceptional cases they match. They're usually orange to orange-red. To me, if the narrow (mid-triad) ring is white, cream, yellow, or gold, the animal's a tricolor; when that ring gets orange you can start entertaining its being a tangerine, and as it approaches the color of the wide rings you can be sure. But those are just my opinions. I see others characterizing their animals quite differentlly--certainly a lot of people call animals tangerine albinos that i sure don't think deserve that term. I guess it helps sell them, or helps get a premium price. But i always marvel that people will buy based on what someone CALLS something rather than what they can see for themselves in the photos.

I'd consider the animal pictured here to be a tangerine. It's just a quick grab from my photo files, some tangerines have fewer triads and wider rings and i personally prefer those; some people have specifically requested these high-triad, narrow ring animals. It's all personal preference.

Others may disagree.

Terry

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this is one of the low triad, wide-ring types, the white rings being pretty much pinstriped. but those are all pattern variations independent of the issue of whether it's tangerine or not. the issue with this animal is that the colors approximate each other, making it a tangerine, though i think the pattern serves the animal very well, as well.
terry

np

that last pic "wide band pin srtipe"could be the infamous"Hybino" LOL hope im not starting something!
i favor the quad color albino on the tangerine side(red,orange,yellow,white).
thanks again Chris...........

>>that last pic "wide band pin srtipe"could be the infamous"Hybino" LOL hope im not starting something!
>>i favor the quad color albino on the tangerine side(red,orange,yellow,white).
>>thanks again Chris...........

you're right, chris: it's one of two holdbacks from last year that will be test-bred to determine their full genotype. they have 50% chance of being het/hypo and 25% chance of being homozygous hypo. I've seen the same "pale" look in some of this year's babies--in tricolors, as well as tangerines, since the hybino morph can occur in either phase.

terry

I agree with Terry 100%. Sometimes this "in-between phase" that is neither tangerine or yellow is referred to as a "peach phase."

Tim

Third Eye

i had one hatch as a "Peach" and one as Tri.Chris