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Old 06-20-2008, 02:56 PM
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Exclamation Golden Gecko Turned Black ! ! !

I have an adult male and juvi female and they get along very well. the male is a tad active and looks VERY healthy. The female never moved around. is always hiding under a rock and has turned black! I know she's been eating so that's not the case... what's going on?!?!?! HELP!
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Probably, she is also a male. Females are rare in imports and 90% of animals sold as females turn out to be males. Check my earlier post on sexing og ulikovskii and post pic of the anal area to get precise sexing.
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Hey there,

Ingo is right, cause I have two male ulikovski's (Pain & Panic) that were sold to me as a couple.
They do really well togehter (fortunate enough), and are both black. I just guess that males are suppose to be black, and only the females look a bit goldish(?)
You can find a picture off Panic (and see it's colour) in my album on the gallerypage.
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i always thought the golden and darker colors just came with the seasons and conditions. i kept one in with a chameleon a few years back. i had it for over 5 years and it lived in a large screen cage. i remember the thing getting almost bright golden to pitch black at times, grey/brownish other and light golden. at least i remember it doing that. the gecko was not the center piece of that setup, rather it was the night time janitor. i bought it to eat the roaches the chameleon missed. i kept it for 2 weeks after before selling it to a friend who still has it. i am very certain it was a male, but never sexed it.
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The darker colors tend to be caused by stress.
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They do really well togehter (fortunate enough), and are both black. I just guess that males are suppose to be black, and only the females look a bit goldish(?)
Cindy
They arent called golden geckos for nothing. . . if they were supposed to be black they wouldnt be commonly known as golden.
Black is a sign of either being cold or very very stressed. If you have two males its from being very stressed. They should be a very nice yellow gold color.
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I threw in my sub adult female with my young male and sure enough, 2 boys. The smaller one just stayed hidden at all times and turned black. Pretty common routine, seperate them for the smaller one's sake.
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Golden Geckos are colourful in both sexes. Black animals are heavily stressed. For sexing, see my earlier post: http://www.geckosunlimited.com/commu...tml#post172552
Females do not have any enlarged tubercles at both side of the tail base, wheras males do have visibly enlarged ones. Also you do not even notice the row of pores in female with bare eyes. Well nourished female salso have pronounced calcium sacs

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Here is a picture I just took of her. She's lightened up a bit since the last time i checked up on her. She's still always in her cave (with moss on the bottom) and just pekes her head out to eat at night...

http://www.itookthisonmyphone.com/me...b4c.jpg?size=l
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looks to be an overweight, stressed male. note the slight swelling at the base of the tail
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