Albino Leopard Geckos

In 1991 the first  designer Leopard Gecko was hatched. Sense then there has been a very big interest in breeding these geckos to come up with different color and pattern mutations such as the leucistic, high yellow and albino leopard geckos.

There are three different strains of albino geckos, the Tremper, Rainwater, {Las Vegas} and Bell. These geckos have recessive traits which means that if you breed a Tremper albino with a Rainwater or Bell albino you would not get an albino gecko but the babies would be normal. The genes that control a certain part of the development are the mutations that are recessive traits. It is usually at random that these traits are found and can depend on lots of luck.

It can be very hard to tell the difference between the three strains of leopard geckos that are albino. Take a guess and you may hit it right. The Temper strain is the most common albino and also they were the first albino strains. These strains can be brown and called the “Mocha Strain” but other times they can be bright white or the color of pink. Their eyes can be bright red or lighter than the normal gecko. Different incubation temperatures can produce different body and eye colors. A higher temperature during incubation can make a leopard gecko darker in color.

The second most common of the three strains of albino geckos are the “Rainwater” strains that is some times pinker than the other strains. The rare albino gecko, the Bell strain, will have a high contrast and be much darker with pink areas. The “Bell” albino have the reddest eyes. As some of the geckos get older their eye color can go back to a beige color but the “Bell” strain their eye color might stay reddish or or pink. The three strains have a sensitivity to lights that are bright and might not feel right eating in the daylight because of this.

There will probably be many more variations of different colors and patterns as the grow in popularity so there will be many more dominant recessive mutations in future years and will make these beautiful animals more unique.

Gene S. Killian

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