Albino question

[wnieuwenhuis]

I'm on this forum for a while now, and have read many threads. Now I have got a question that I can't find. Have there ever been made albino combo's? Like HC x Lav or HC x Caramel or Lav x Caramel?

Greet Wouter

[elevatethis]

No, probably because the combos you mention above wouldn't look outwardly different from a normal albino.

I'm pretty sure that a double homozygous 'caramel albino' 'albino' would look like the same as regular albino. The caramel albino turns off some of the dark pigment, the regular albino gene turns off all of it.

Same goes with the Lavender albino x regular albino.

[RandyRemington]

I've actually not yet heard of anyone breeding caramel X regular albino to prove they aren't two different mutations of the same gene. The general assumption is that cross would produce normal looking double hets for two different genes and wouldn't be worth doing because the double homozygous the next generation would look like an albino. However, if caramel and regular albino turn out to be alleles you might get caramel looking babies in the first cross rather than double hets.

[wnieuwenhuis]

Tnx for yours answers both!