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High Contrast Albino Question
Is high contrast a genetic thing or are some just more contrasted than others.
I have a high contrast male albino - Must I pair him with a high contrast female in order to get high contrast offspring?
If I bread him to a normal will those be 100% high contrast het albinos?
Thanks
Chad
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Re: High Contrast Albino Question
HC is mostly a line bred thing. To preserve/enhance the HC you want to breed to females with really dark (i.e. black) background that has minimal blushing and high gold aliens. Remember that anything that is dark on a normal is what is going to be "erased" in the albino
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Re: High Contrast Albino Question
Okay thanks
So what about albino to albino...
HC albino x normal albino = ??
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Re: High Contrast Albino Question
Originally Posted by asplundii
HC is mostly a line bred thing. To preserve/enhance the HC you want to breed to females with really dark (i.e. black) background that has minimal blushing and high gold aliens. Remember that anything that is dark on a normal is what is going to be "erased" in the albino
You actually want to breed it to an animal with hyper xanthism (high yellow), and not hyper melenism (high/dark black). The black will be the white areas on an albino, so to selectively breed for "high contrast" albinos you want to work with animals that have a lot of very dark "saffron" yellows.
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Re: High Contrast Albino Question
If this were the case, going for a high yellow animal would decrease the contrast between the white and yellow on the albino wouldnt it?
Maybe it's late, but it makes more sense to breed an animal with very dark black, like black pastels have, those have turned out to be some gorgeous animals since they so often have the extra dark head and dorsal.
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Re: High Contrast Albino Question
Any contrast is going to come from the color of the yellow in an albino. Any black, no matter how light or dark, will be white, and there aren't varying degrees of white in albinos. It's either solid white or some shade of yellow. Cinnies have somewhat hyperxanthic color going on under all that black, so albino cinnies have deeper yellows = high contract.
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Re: High Contrast Albino Question
HC albino x normal albino = ??
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Re: High Contrast Albino Question
Originally Posted by ChadOwens
HC albino x normal albino = ??
= hopefully some nice looking babies.
But remember this is selective breeding, not breeding different morphs. If you pick out a very nice HC albino and breed it to a normal albino, one would hope you would get some nice looking albino babies in the clutch. Would they be high contast? Maybe. Could they have average contrast? Maybe.
The best way to think of it is that babies *tend* to look like their parents. So even nice parents can throw blah offspring, and vice versa.
JonV
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Re: High Contrast Albino Question
My thinking was the deeper black colors will remain whiter than a high yellow blushed black pattern...
I just keep thinking about the black pastel albinos, and how they are such a high contrast. The darker the animal, it does seem they make KILLER albinos.
Originally Posted by Akua_Ko_Nalu
Here's a Black Pastel Albino, courtesy of Darren at Crystal Palace Reptiles here in the UK. They're really neat looking animals, the contrast is unreal.
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Re: High Contrast Albino Question
Originally Posted by littleindiangirl
My thinking was the deeper black colors will remain whiter than a high yellow blushed black pattern...
Darker black should equal brighter whites, so I would agree with you.
JonV
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