"Albino" green/blue & bronze aurauts

[rmelancon]

These started as clear tadpoles. These are still fairly young so they don't have their full adult coloration which will be interesting to see.
Have some that are coming out with red eyes like this one


and some that have black eyes

[Dendro Dave]

RAD.....will u be selling any?

[atomic_gnar]

woaw those look kinda freeky man but cool

[MattySF]

Fantastic, ghostly like a Japanese horror film.

[joshua_delancey69]

Rob you are like the God Father of Albino's..........outstanding agian

[rmelancon]

Someone else asked me what the odds were and honestly I don't know how to anwer that. Maybe albinism, etc isn't as uncommon in these as we think. It's funny that just in the last few years these things are starting to pop up. Maybe it is because there are simply more WC animals coming in in the past say 5 years and there are a lot more hobbyist working with these WC animals and their offspring. Just a guess though.

[elmoisfive]

Albino genotypes may be present in wild populations as recessive but fairly well distributed...there could be some significant selection pressure against them when expressed phenotypically in the wild.

Bill

In other words, they stick out like a sore thumb and get picked off early. :wink:

[elmoisfive]

It's mere speculation on my part. I was thinking less of being visible as opposed to missing critical "I'm bright and obvious and something you don't want to eat" signals of their normal colored bretheren.

Bill

[rattler_mt]

it may just depend on what locale the frogs are from. some animal species tend to show more albinos than others. some have several different albino genes that arent compatable with each other(cornsnakes) and some it depends on where they are. whitetail deer are a critter where albinos arent unheard of but for some reason albino whitetails are far more common in the eastern US than the western, infact ive never heard of one in the western US though im sure there have been a couple but in the eastern US there are several populations where they pop up on a regular basis.

why more albino darts are showing up is because more ppl are working with darts, there is more info availible on them so ppl have a better chance at successfully getting WC started and breeding. basically the more different lines you work with, especially WC animals the better your chances are. if more ppl worked at breeding fire belly toads in captivity instead of relying almost totally on WC individuals we would more than likely see some albino individuals pop up