[fenrisswolf]

After a few years of looking for them, and thanks to some fortunate timing between ending my lack of employment and seeing an ad for them, I finally got a hold of a breeding colony of these this week, (3.12, yay!) and seem to have picked up both "light" and "dark phase" varieties as part of this colony. I have fewer dark ones, and still need to check if one of the males is among those, but I've noticed none of them seem to have the strikingly violet eye coloration the first pair of stenos I ever kept had. (Some have hints of violet in their white/orange eyes, but nothing as distinctly noticeable as the ones before did.)

So I got to wondering: What color traits are known to exist for this species?

Violet vs. "rusty/sandy" orange eyes must be one, and "light/banded" vs. "dark/speckly" body markings is another. Is there a dark, banded variety? Most of the lighter colored animals have distinct bands, while the dark ones seem to have an overall fine mottled look to them.
I must admit to liking the dark ones a little better, and I would like to see some more violet in my fedgling colony's eyes, but for the moment, I'll settle for a stable breeding colony made of two groups, one of darker colored animals and another one of lightly colored tiny geckos.