dove in head first with fat tails (pics)

postskunk · #1 07-07-2010, 11:28 AM

So I've been keeping/breeding a lot of geckos leaf tails, cats, bow finger, caves, ect. but there all pretty delicate and recently I've really grown an affinity towards fat tails and all the different morphs. So a few days ago I found a great deal and knew i would hate myself if I past it up.

I was up all night drilling holes/ cutting excess plastic away from shoe boxes and making room for the little guys. And at 10am this morning UPS rolled up and even though I knew what was in the box I couldn't believe my eyes when I opened it.

I took these on my phone so there not so great

I need to put hides in there for them and one or two other things but I just wanted to get them sprayed and watered coming out of the box

12
3 male albino
6 female albino
4 het albino I'm not sure of the sex

I'll probably take more photos later when there settled in and I can use my good camera but I had to get a picture of this guy. Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions and he/she's going into a shed but if it's not a shed then I cant wait to see how the colors turn out (actually can't wait to see the colors is spread across the board for these guys)

the lighting could be better in this photo

and here's a photo of him/her next to one of the other normal looking Hets.

Holy molly I'm in heaven right now. I'm sure I'll have a lot of questions for you guy soon but for right now I just wanted to show off a little cause I'm so excited

more photos to come
Thanks for checking them out
-Matt

postskunk · #2 07-07-2010, 05:44 PM

ok I snuck in a few more quick photos while I misted them to figure what I actually had and so I could keep track of them, but thats it no more un-necessary stress.

not sure which are males and which are females thy are all between 4 and 6 weeks old but I know they were incubated for sex

5 striped albino

4 banded albino

2 banded het albino 1 striped het albino
the striped het looked darker when I took the picture then when I opened the box? maybe it was stress colors?

also I keep calling them albino but they were labeled as Amel so I guess there amel. I know this has been discussed in previous threads but I'm still fuzzy on it. So I thought albino meant lacking pigment which would mean the eyes would be red or lack pigment also, Amelanistic means lacking pigment but it doesn't have to lack pigment everywhere hence the eyes are normal? I've never seen a fat tail with red eyes so I'm guessing amel and albino (even though it's not a true albino) are interchangeable with the species?

one more thing should I put the hide on the side with the heat cable or the side without, or a small one on each side? thanks in advance

Matt

acpart · #3 07-07-2010, 08:15 PM

Congratulations on your acquisitions. I'm also increasing my fat tail collection, but not so drastically. I'd vote for a small hide on each side (right now it's in the 90's in my house so all the geckos are on the cool side). I have seen a great difference in the same gecko between when she was in the rack and when she was in a tank. In the rack she was a pastel orange and the brown bands were washing out, but in the tank, her orange has gotten tannish and the brown bands are darker.

Aliza

mdmlss23 · #4 07-07-2010, 08:55 PM

congats fatties are graet wow they all look good cannt wait to see more pics as they age

MaX06 · #5 07-07-2010, 09:02 PM

Yeah ! Some look very good !

postskunk · #6 07-07-2010, 09:56 PM

thanks guys, they all look a little sleepy and lethargic in the photos but they are all active now and hopping around they had a rough night. I'm sure I'd be sleepy too if I was shipped half way across the country

my next task is too keep myself from buying some more different morphs at white plans on Sunday I'm hooked

thanks again guys
-Matt

Lizardman · #7 11-27-2010, 07:09 AM

Great looking AFT's. I just love them, I'm hooked too and I just have to get some more fatties. Do you have any pics of the rack system for them? Would be nice to see because im planning to build a rack for mine.

Regards
Niclas