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If you breed an albino frog to a regular frog.... What would the chances of getting albino offspring be?

Sorry for the stupid question. I never have really understood that kind of stuff.
 
If Albinism in frogs is recessive like it is in most species, you will have Normal frogs heterozygous for Albino. None will look Albino, but carry the gene.
 
If you are going into this with the intent of producing albino frogs, my recommendation would be to avoid the inbreeding as much as possible. Get another albino, or het albino, and breed THAT to the offspring (or to the original albino, if they are of the opposite gender). Too many people enter breeding projects focused on the simplest and easiest way to produce what they want...and, subsequently, purchase siblings as future breeders...or inbreed within their own colony.
I'm not saying there isn't some place for that - notably, when working with NEW (newly discovered/created, not new to a particular keeper) traits, or trying to refine existing ones - but it shouldn't be the automatic approach.
 
The original group this came from is a group of 8 frogs. I have no idea who is who and this has been the only albino in about 500-600 tads. I have no way of knowing who the "parents" are.

I have been looking for another albino of this kind of frog but have only seen them offered once in the last couple years.

What would you suggest is the best way to go about it?
 
If it is not a morph commonly seen in the species, you will have no choice but to inbreed. Inbreeding is generally only bad when it is done over several generations. Generally 2-3 generations of inbreeding won't hurt.

If it is a male, I would suggest breeding him with at least five 100% unrelated females (both to him and each other) that way you have the most diverse genetics you can get to work with.
 
TripleMoonsExotic said:
If it is not a morph commonly seen in the species, you will have no choice but to inbreed. Inbreeding is generally only bad when it is done over several generations. Generally 2-3 generations of inbreeding won't hurt.

If it is a male, I would suggest breeding him with at least five 100% unrelated females (both to him and each other) that way you have the most diverse genetics you can get to work with.
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Thank you.

Now I get to play the hurry up and wait to see if if it turns out to be a male or female.

Thank you for the advice and tips
 
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