Green Eyed Strophurus taenicauda

[clarksgeckos]

Hi all,

I have not been here for some time to post anything so, I figured I would take a photo of a gecko that I found to be of much interest to me. I found that this gecko I produced a few months ago was a Green Eyed baby about 2 weeks before the Daytona NRBE Show. I just finally got the time to photograph it!

Hope that you all enjoy!

Best Regards,
Clark and Nicole

 

[John Z]

Very cool! Id be on the look out for more from what youve produced. Thats definitely one to hold onto. Congrats!

 

[SarkkaS]

Am I colorblind? Where exactly is the green in the eye?


-Sale

 

[Luperosaurus]

As I think this is maybe "white eye" variation of normal S.taenicauda which you can get from normal "red eye" parents.

 

[DDReptiles]

Nice Clark, really interesting how it popped out when the parents were normal eyed.

Still like the red eyes more though

 

[oli]

Haha, that's funny Derek, that's what I was thinking but it is very cool that you have these white/green eyed specimens in your collection! I will post a picture of the white eyed specimen you sold to me Clark and I will send him/her back so that we can get a white eyed to white eyed breeding program if we end up with unlike sexes! Sound enticing? Anyone have experiences with the breeding of these light eyed taenicauda?

 

[smallpaul]

Very nice gecko Clark !!

 

[tanala]

Am I colorblind? Where exactly is the green in the eye?


-Sale

i must be colourblind, too. I see only a dirty white/yellow

 

[clarksgeckos]

Hi all,

I thank you for your comments. I think that for some of you that this is a delicate subject. I believe that the animal posted on Jerry Peebles website is the grandparent of these geckos that I produced this year. It has green and white eyes. It is posted up on Jerry Peebles website and the eyes of this gecko do not look like the ones that were posted above in the adult animal. I used a very inexpensive camera to snap the photo with flash of this particular "small baby". The eyes in natural sun at this time look very silver with a bit of green and of course it has the white spots around the retina like all other taenicauda eyes.
I have very good reason to believe that this is not just a freak that happens when producing this species from "normal" red eyed animals. I have isolated this gene to a particular group of animals purchased from Jerry in 2006. I am sure that if I asked him about this particular bloodline he would tell me that his really cool looking animal produced them. I have produced 3 of these animals this season out of 30 animals produced and all came from one particular pairing and all other animals have produced "normal" red eyed offspring leading me to believe that this is a simple recessive trait carried by only animals that come from a certain isolated population in Australia as Jerry mentioned on his site.
Whatever though??? I thought that it was realy cool because I had told all my friends that the chances of producing one of them was slim to none as there was only one of these animal that I know of in the states and only one animal in all of the breeding stock that I originally purchased from.
Best Regards,
Clark and Nicole Tucker

 

[SarkkaS]

It would really be cool to see some shots without a flash, if possible. It's always interesting to study how one feature or another is linked and inherited, whether features occur only together. I'm in the process of figuring out the hypomelanistic characteristic in Lygodactylus mombasicus and currently, all evidence points at a simple recessive gene. But, as always, it's a work in progress

Best of luck on your search


-Sale

 

[Veredus]

On the topic of strange eye colour in taenicauda...Just thought I'd throw up a couple of pics of my yellow eyed girl.

What do you all think?

 

[rhacoboy]

WOW!!!! The incredible eye color adds on to the insane contrast of this specie.
A true gem in the gecko world

 

[Geckos and Goannas]

Very Nice! Did you produce her your self? JW but how hard is it for you to get native reptiles there? Could you get me a pair of Varanus varius (Lace Goanna)!?!?!?!?!?! JKJK.

 

[Veredus]

Actually she was bred by Danny Brown from this site I was told, but I purchased her from another keeper. Natives are the only reptiles we can legally keep here, though we cant export them so no luck on the lacie sorry ;-)

 

[clarksgeckos]

Veredus,

That is a really nice taenicauda. She is not the same subspecies that we have here in the US. If you notice she has a much different stripe than the ones that we work with here.

Have you bred her to another animal of the same subspecies? I saw that she looked to have some rough places like she has been breeding. I hope to see you show off some babies from her with that trait.

Best Regards,
Clark Tucker

 

[Veredus]

I have bred her with a male classed under the same subspecies but lacks the eye colour and lighter pattern of this gecko. She is the only idividual I have seen like this one. So far this season I have two hatchlings and two more eggs in the incubator and hope to breed them across each other to see if I they will reproduce the colour (as the hatchlings exhibit regular red coloured eyes).

 

[adambedlam]

Amazing taenicauda!!