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Originally Posted by DeVackHerps
are tangerine tremper albinos, hybinos? such as these..
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Kyle,
Not quite. These geckos would have to be lacking their white portions, which on a normal (non-albino) gecko, would have been black. That would make them Hypo(melanistic) or Super Hypo(melanistic). Since you're stripping all the melanin away to make them albino, the black turns to white in albinos. In Hypos, the black also fades away, which would equate to the white bands in your albinos fading away gradually. So, for a gecko to be Hybino, it would have to have been a Hypo or Super Hypo if it were not albino.
To make these, you need to cross Albino with Hypo or Super Hypos that are het albino. So, starting with a plain albino and a plain Hypo or Super Hypo, you cross them the first year and you'll get offspring exhibiting various degrees of the hypomelanistic trait, since it is dominant(or co-dominant...still can't get it straight). These offspring will all be het for albino. The next year, you can breed these hypo/superhypo het albinos to another of the same or an albino and produce some hybinos. In at least some cases, you won't be positive you have them at first, because the white portions will slowly fade away as the black does with most hypos/superhypos.
This is an example of a hypo on the bottom (less than 10 body spots), and two super hypos, with zero body spots.
And, this is an example of a Hybino, taken from KelliH's gallery here on Fauna
You can see how there were some white body bands, but they have been overcome with orange. Also, there is no black on the tail, which you usually see on a Hypo/Superhypo. You'll also see Hybinos marketed as Sunglows (like from the Urban Gecko).