One of the varieties of the leopard gecko ancestry is the Albino leopard gecko. Every kind of these species has its own genetics producing different behaviors.

Albinos were divided into three strains such as Tremper, Rainwater, and Bell. All these were named after the person who first produced the particular strain. Rainwater is also called Las Vegas Albino. All the strains possess the recessive traits meaning this trait is not expressed when combined with a dominant trait. However, if the gecko is carrying two copies of that trait in order to expressed its recessive trait.

The albino strains are sensitive to bright light and will easily close their eyes tightly when lights are directly exposed to them. Just like most geckos they also do not feed during the day but are more active at night.

The strains are genetically incompatible with each other which means, they are not good for … Read more

I was born in a hospital but I take pride in telling everyone I encounter that I was born under a banana tree due to abject penury! My father was a World War 2 veteran who worked with the Customs Department in Cameroon (West Central Africa). He was a self-made man with a second grade education but would go to the bank and conduct his financial transactions with help from nobody; filling out forms and making deposits or withdrawals as the case may be. He would work from dawn to dusk on his garden and rental properties during his free time. The phrase “Dawn to Dusk” is not anathema to Africa in the 1980’s. The military would seize power (Coups d’Etats) in some African countries and junta spokesmen would impose “dawn to dusk” curfews while suspending constitutions and disbanding national assemblies (Lol). As age took its toll on my dad, … Read more