[Uncarina]

Aside from wild-caught individuals, does anyone here breed leopard geckos with natural coloration/patterns? This isn't a want ad, I'm just curious.

Thanks,

Tom

[Crane5254]

Most breeders that off that type of morph still have a nice special name that causes the price to go up lol. Most refer to them as High Yellows, and some types of Jungles.

[Riverside Reptiles]

I still have true old school leopard geckos that have never in their family tree been bred to any sort of morph. Sadly, they're more rare these days than most of the morphs. Even when you do come across what people might call a "normal", it's most likely had some ancestor in it's bloodlines that contained some sort of morphed genetics somewhere along the way. That's exactly what happens when people don't take care to preserve the natural forms and why many serious gecko hobbyists are anti-morph all together.

[Uncarina]

I'm glad to hear that you have them. I had a natural morph female that lived to be 28 (I received her when she was 22), but this was back in the mid-1990's.

Thanks,

tom

[Ozymandias]

I have one female who's father was an F1 mother wasn't but thay are both around 18-20 if I remember correctly.

[Crane5254]

Wow so they actually do have a long life span...thats great because my son has become very attached to the ones we have got now lol. And we have a normal morph female, but even in saying that she still has a bit of lavender and orange speckle in her tail...in saying so i will agree that the "normal morph" has escaladed into a big mix pool of genes...

[Ozymandias]

yup and the parents to mine are probably 22-23 and 20-21 right now and thay will still produce eggs (though the owner doesn't hatch them out usually he just feeds them to his akies)