Question....

[Denise101]

One of my Rainwater Albino eggs hatched today but the baby is a patternless.. why? Both the parents are rainwaters they must be hets for patternless too..? If so dose this mean ill never get a rainwater baby, only patternless ones..?

[Siretsap]

No it doesn't mean they will all be patternless. Is the baby a patternless albino? Or juste patternless?

[Denise101]

No i dont think shes a albino her eyes are dark...

[thunder]

if she's not an albino, than her parents cannot both be rainwater albinos. rainwater albinos, regardless of whether they are het for patternless, should produce all albino offspring. you must have 2 diff strains of albino.

[DragnDrop]

If both your albinos are definite Rainwater albinos and produced a patternless baby, then they have to both be het for patternless, and it's got to be a patternless albino hatchling.

Albino(Rainwater) het. Patternless X Albino(Rainwater) het. Patternless

25%
Albino(Rainwater)

50%
Albino(Rainwater) het. Patternless

25%
Albino(Rainwater) Patternless

Baby PA's look like patternless but the normal dark (brownish) blotches are pink, since there's no melanin to 'fill' those areas. Patternless albinos do not 'have' to have red eyes.

This is a picture of a patternless albino approximately a month or so old.
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/511/321pa_side-med.jpg

And a closeup of the pink blotches
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/511/321pa_tail2-med.jpg

Does yours look similar to this one? The pink blotches are the dead give-away to a patternless albino.


However, if you have 2 incompatible albino strains (Rainwater and Tremper for example), you can get:

Albino(Rainwater) het. Patternless X Albino(Tremper) het. Patternless

25%
Normal het. Albino(Rainwater) het. Albino(Tremper)

50%
Normal het. Patternless het. Albino(Rainwater) het. Albino(Tremper)

25%
Patternless het. Albino(Rainwater) het. Albino(Tremper)

This combo could get you a patternless as opposed to patternless albino.

[Denise101]

Thanks for all the replys. I took some pics of her just that time (she just hatchd today and is about 11 hours old =) Her 'spots' all seem pink but her eyes are so dark same with the blue above her eyes. Mabey as she gets older her eyes will turn red..? Or mabey shes just a normal patternless... what do you think..?

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/4611baby1.jpg
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/4611baby4.jpg
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/4611baby3.jpg

[Gregg M]

Looks like a patternless albino to me....... Congratulations......

[lifeline]

It is deffinately a Rainwater Patternless Albino looks like you lucked out and got some good breeders. look for more to come :>


thanks mike and cheryl
leopardgecko.ca

http://www.leopardgecko.ca/image.php?Id=47

[DragnDrop]

She's a patternless albino, great looking one too :) Congrats!
If there's going to be a mystery gene in there to mess up the works, that's a good one to have. Patternless albinos are so beeeauuuuutiful when they're adults.