Recent content by Tokaybyt

She's a Hine line HYPOmelanistic. They can range in color from what your gecko looks like to nice yellow-orange (=tangerine) to vibrant orange. It was not uncommon back in the very late 90s (98/99) to earl 2000s for Ray Hine hypos to look like this. This was their appearance before tangerine...

yes... They may not wholly disappear, but they will definitely become less evident. When cold or stressed those bands, even as an adult may become noticeable, only to disappear again once warmed up of comfortable. These are super hypo tangerine carrot-tail hatchlings from back in 2002...

That's the leopard gecko version of.... *not my kittah*

Here's some comparisons for you...

Let me clarify in that my wife is the "monster" that I've created. She was supposed to be my voice of no more herps. She saw the robertmertensi and gave me the "look", which spurred a whirlwind of thoughts in my head of shifting cages about, tearing some down to renovate, and getting these...

...NARBC show this weekend in Arlington, TX. The "plan" was to only purchase drygoods I needed to restock. My wife is an enabler :yikes: :shock: :biggrin:, via Joe Hupp. Crummy, low light, iPhone shots. May get better photos tomorrow if time. Male top image, female bottom. Jon and...

There was a link somewhere, some time ago on Dendroboard to free CAD imaging like you've posted... Re: woodworking, I ask as the tank might be a good candidate for a nice stand and canopy. I'm use to 30s being 30x12x18. You might have been able to do 18 inch fluorescents within the canopy...

in your first post, do the eyes have red veins or black veins in the iris? Rainwater albino eye (Bell and Tremper albinos will have red veins and red pupils, with Bells having a pink iris and both Tremper and Rainwater albinos tend to have a silver iris) A striped leopard gecko eye, with a...

Here's one (Hemidactylus turcicus - Mediterranean gecko) off the side on my house. I didn't have any fresh hatchlings crawling all over and this guy is as small as I could go that would cooperate for a photo. If memory serves me well, they've been documented from Baltimore, south into FL, and...

Bravado probably has jungle/stripe genes in his lineage somewhere. I recall an issue of REPTILES magazine, an issue nearing 20 years old or maybe 15 years, that discusses "Halloween Mask" and it's ties to jungle/stripe. In my humble opinion, the recent surge of this "trait" is more of a sales...

just to add to this thread... I originally looked into doing LED when I was building this... It's a 27 gallon cube tank and stand from PetSmart (it's a marineland tank-stand combo). I built the canopy above, and as stated I'd originally looked into going LED. At the time I was...

What's this concept of keeping records on your herps?... That's for my corns. I used to keep similar records on my leopard gecko pairings, but they got inadvertently thrown out in a move back in 2002 and I never started it back up. Oddly though, I could probably tell you almost every detail...

Aliza... Look again, that's a darkly colored Murphy Patternless. The faded neck band, yellow-orange coloring at the tail base, and the faded pattern on the tail are the dead give-aways. For example: The patternless, and normal, below was a het for Rainwater albino I got back in 1999 from Tim...

Don't fall for it....

He looks to be a Tremper albino. Back when that strain of albino was released to the public (1999) it wasn't uncommon for them to look like that. Through selective breeding and incubation temperature manipulation, the Tremper strain of albino tends to not brown out much any longer. He could...