[charlesthompson]

very happy boy- the first of the morphs hatched today - paradoxically being a normally marked baby..........but this is ok give it six months and it will have the developed the calico markings. From a calico to calico breeding.

will post pics at some point cheers

chazza

[fickle]

cant wait to see it your site shows off a lot of beaties good luck hatching the rest

[Jordan Mangham]

ive seen both the babies chaz has hatched and they are a real credit!!!! Well done mate!

[cooper01]

Please let us see the some pics of the little ones. We are waiting!!!!!! Please

[Saille]

Grats on the healthy hatchling! Please post pictures when you can! It will be interesting to document how they change and grow as they mature.

[charlesthompson]

Right im back with pictures. Plus great news yesterday i hatched out a powder blue which i am very pleased with. The only strange thing is it came from a blue headed green wild caught female to a powder blue wild caught male. Which appears to mean that my powder blue is co dom. Very strange considering i see americans offering them as single recessive. Maybe i am mistaken and the powder blue male is a blue headed green but i doubt it any one who has seen the adults sees the vast difference i see.




mum
dad

ill post pictures of the little powder blue tomorrow/maybe tonight if i get time.

regards chaz

[Riverside Reptiles]

Originally Posted by charlesthompson

Plus great news yesterday i hatched out a powder blue which i am very pleased with. The only strange thing is it came from a blue headed green wild caught female to a powder blue wild caught male. Which appears to mean that my powder blue is co dom. Very strange considering i see americans offering them as single recessive.

Or, the female may be het for powder blue. Or, the powder blue and blue headed green may be varients of the same genetics. Or, the genetics involved may not be as simple as thought (ie the ultramel morph in corn snakes). Hard to say from just one baby. Hatch out a few dozen more and let us know the results! In any case, congrats on the new babies!

[cooper01]

Has anyone looked at the possibility that some of these morphological variations are due to the occurence of SNP's (Single Nuclear Polymorphisms)? Its all the rage right now in systematic and other molecular research. I think that most of the work that on SNP's is done after the genome has been sequenced. In this case the gemome is not even started, or at least from what i have heard. Sorry to ramble, just wanted to through this out there. If it is SNP related, it would mean that there might be several single nucleotide changes throughout the genome that all combine to achieve the most rare of the morphs. A gecko that has one or two would exibite a different, but somehow related morph. Thats my two cents!!!

[charlesthompson]

here is the picture - base colour seems uniform - was a much lighter blue in the incubator (male dislodged it in the tank) obviously has darkened down now.

with the colour being uniform hence why i called it a powder blue - the two blue headed green girls i have have a marked difference



mum


dad



maybe your right i see when i made the site on one picture i have called the male blue headed green and then on another i have called it powder blue. Maybe it is a blue headed green but a much much better one?

[cliff_f]

Those are some very nice tokays. You know you could send me a few so I could get some of the morphs breeding and we could work together on figuring out the genetics