Caramel Albino

Originally Posted by Shadera

Not kinks, massive amounts of slugs vs. good eggs.

Anyhow, good luck.

You may have just broken my little heart

Originally Posted by Shadera

Not kinks, massive amounts of slugs vs. good eggs.

Anyhow, good luck.

Yea, I saw about that too. I know people that had great clutches and some that came out all slugs. The only way to tell is to breed her next season and see what happens. Just want to add a little more size to her. Plus I have a bunch of het caramels too so should at least get some good eggs out of them!

Regular Albino females at one time also had productivity issues. I have taken pains to out breed with 3 different strains of Albino in the hopes of producing homozygous girls who won't slug out. I'll know next year if all the time & work has paid off.

Recessive are genes initially line-bred more to prove out the trait & while this can re-enforce good traits it also brings out weaknesses. As we out breed this should help especially if we are working from a wider group of unrelated WC T+ animals.

I had never heard about issues with regular albino females (of course I was many years into my caramel project before I heard about either issue with that gene). Was it slugs? I'm hoping for eggs from my first albino girl this year ...

Hey Randy,
I think I may have shared with you that Albinos was my 1st morph. So this was right at 2001-2002 & I was using a het pair initially. I had mentioned to folks about my goal of ultimately breeding a homozygous pair. It was strongly recommended that I use homozygous male to het females. At that time we still were mostly all Clark strain Albinos out there... and since then we've had other breeders bring in other WC Albinos.

From what I gathered back then, it was slug issues & smaller clutches.