Albinos from chain pet stores

When I first fell in love with Leos, I purchased three albinos from the local Petco(where I am happy to say they are well taken care of....very fat and happy critters, clean cages, knowledgable staff)...they get their supply from southern zoological, or southern california zoological....I am trying to figure out if these girls are Tremper? I'd heard that most albinos in pet stores are. Any one know or can anyone tell me how to differentiate between the three strains?

Thanks!
Shannan

pics may help. they all seem to look a little different, but sometimes it is hard to tell them apart

I'm setting up the mini studio this weekend to get their pics, and everyone else's up on my web page. They have red eyes, colors started off really pinkish with yellow. They have maintained the fleshy/pink tone and the yellow is changing to tangerine with some carrot tail. They aren't the world's most spectacular Albinos but they are beautiful to me! White is starting to develop in streaks here and there.

Sounds like I just described every Albino out there.....

...Gourmet Rodent and Alan Repashy (gecko end of sand fire dragon ranch) have contracts with petco. Last I checked, both worked with Tremper strains and no others. I've also been told that Ron Trmeper has a contract with PetsMart. So to answer your question, more than likely they are Tremper strain.

Looks like I am going to have to start visiting my local PetsMarts more often. I have one 5 minutes down the road and one 30 minutes the other way. I wonder if they would actualy tell me were their Leos are coming from.

Jeff

Originally posted by magick-bears
Looks like I am going to have to start visiting my local PetsMarts more often. I have one 5 minutes down the road and one 30 minutes the other way. I wonder if they would actualy tell me were their Leos are coming from.

Jeff

I can almost gurantee that they dont know where there animals come from, they just make an order from the home office or warehouse and wait for them to show up.

who are these people? are they the breeding gurus of the species?
what do you need to check out at the local petsmart?
you have your creatures.
maybe you need some crickets.

maybe you need a new heat pad.

let me know if you know these things.

thanks
a

Originally posted by abubbae
who are these people? are they the breeding gurus of the species?
what do you need to check out at the local petsmart?
you have your creatures.
maybe you need some crickets.

maybe you need a new heat pad.

let me know if you know these things.

thanks
a

Ron Tremper, IMO, is the (or at least one of the) people responsable for the leopard gecko being as popular as it is today. He has been breeding leos for over 20 years and is one of the largest breeders in the world. He is also responsable for the Jungle, Stripe, Tremper Albinos, and Tremper Giants.

As for having my creatures already, Nope I don't. I used to breed leos but had to get out of the animal industry all together back in 1999. I am now getting back into them. Though I am going to be buying my initial breeder stock from Ron I will watch PetsMart for anything interesting that might slip by.

Just my $0.03
Jeff