2016 pastel het granite....

[Albert Clark]

i think i rememeber jeff trying to produce super pastel albino granites after he produced that super pastel.

In that case, maybe he can shed some light on that pairing

[Albert Clark]

yet no granite???

There was no granites produced by the one female. However I am waiting for the f2 to drop her litter. They were both bred to the same male. If you recall last year the male bred his daughter which was not planned and a granite was produced from that pairing. The original female (f1) is the parent of (f2). Female( f1) produced 2 granites last year. I am waiting for her litter for 2016. Once again, genetics is not a exact science.

[Albert Clark]

I really dont understand the pages of confusion in this thread.
Albert, your breeders are OBVIOUSLY het albino, there is no way around that, to produce albinos they would both have to carry the albino gene. It doesnt matter if the guy you got them from didnt say theyre het albino, you clearly proved them out as hets. In the wild the albino gene can be passed down for generations without surfacing... just each generation will be made up of hets and then possible hets and then one year they breed and genes match up and boom, albinos again. Same thing couldve happened here with yours.

There is only confusion if you want it to be confusion. Once again genetics is not a exact science. It has nothing to do with what the breeder didn't say. It has everything to do with what he did say. You really can't compare the wild enviornment to captive terrarium enviornment bc they have differing effects on genetic outcomes.

[Albert Clark]

While it is not absolutely impossible that a genetic mutation caused the albino to pop up it is highly unlikely. As Occam's razor teaches us the simplest answer is best and in this case the animals were probably het albino. It is not that much a surprise that a recessive gene was not expressed for a breeder that was not looking for it.

Thanks for weighing in Ant.