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xdiversichicx
10-10-04, 05:59 AM
i purchased a female albino leopard gecko a few weeks ago and i plan on breeding her. she's not old enough yet, still likes a few more months, but i was just curious of what the odds would be for her offspring to be albino?

Zoe
10-10-04, 06:13 AM
Depends on who you breed her to.
If you breed her to a normal male, you'll get no albinos, but 100% of the babies will be 100% heterozygous for Albino (meaning they carry the albino gene without showing it themselves).
If you breed her to a heterozygous male (a normal looking male who carries the albino gene), half the babies will be albino, and half with be heterozygous. Of course, this is only in theory. In real life your numbers may not to turn out to be perfectly 50% / 50%.
If you breed her to an albino male, you'll get 100% albino babies.

Zoe