current pics of the bunch + hatchlings [LOTS OF PICS]

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bleeding_sarcasm

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Since were trying to put stuff together to finally get our website up, ive been working over time taking pics, plus its time to post those hets, and i like to have pics of mommy and daddy handy. so... these are... my current breeder females and male [minus the female raptor, she was in shed] and a few of my recent hatchlings. i have a ton of raise ups that still have some grams left to put on before they start making babies, which i will get pictures of sooner or later.

anyway, i hope you enjoy them!


ill start with the ladies.
normal
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super hypo
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super hypo
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super hypo het albino
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super hypo het albino
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albino giant
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super hypo "boobs"
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super giant het for albino
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normal
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daddy
raptor
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bleeding_sarcasm

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thanks. i have.. alot more, and i need to get pics of them, like my other albinos, albino jungles, patternless albinos, female raptors, blizzards etc. theyre still growing tho.
 
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miss libby

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I just have one question for you. Why on earth would you have them on sand or pebble substrate, especially the babies?
 
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bleeding_sarcasm

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because it makes for an attractive backdrop for pictures. its uniform, has nice texture, and the colors compliment leopard geckos well. i use it for all my desert animal photography. i use the gravel in combination with a fossilized rock that you can sometimes see, and makes an interesting accent.

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for my arboreal geckos i use coir and grape vine, because it photographs well. i think papertowels arent exactly photogenic, and i wanted to not only show off the animals, but have a tastefull background.

im not an idiot. i wouldnt have LIVE animals, [they would die, which would be a waste of very expensive geckos] nor would i be able to BREED animals using GRAVEL as a substrate. and i wouldnt keep 10 of them in the same open sterylite sweater box sized tub with a compact florescent light over them, or in deli cups for that matter, especially the babies. also, it would be next to impossible for me to sift all the poop from the gravel, if i were infact to keep them on that as a substrate. and, if i did get any eggs, they would immeditely dry up, and go bad.

first. sand, is a perfectly acceptable substrate for leopard geckos, as long as its not silica-based. it is, after all, what they live on in the wild.
second, there is no sand in any of my pictures.
third, since you are so interested on what i HAVE them on, i should let you know what i KEEP them on, since pictures last a total of 10 minutes per animal.

babies - paper towels and a hide, with a water dish.
adults - fibersorb with moist lay boxes filled with coir, a water dish and a meal worm dish.

if someone werent keeping their animals reasonably well. they would die, and being dead, they wouldnt be able to make babies.
 
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miss libby

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A simple answer that you use it for photography purposes only would have been sufficient. i didnt mean to offend you if i did. I dont agree that any including non silica based sand is a suitable substrate for leos. But i do agree that the background in your pictures look natural and your leos look well cared for.
Thank you for the quick answer im not used to getting a fast response in this forum. Your leos are very beautiful and your pictures are awesome. thank you
for showing them to us. :wink:
 
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JBReptiles

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I really like the look of your pics.How is your lighting set up?If maybe you can take a pic of your"photo booth"
\Really nice.
 
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bleeding_sarcasm

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thanks, its really ghetto actually. just a compact florescent over a sweater box tub.
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i have 2, one has coir and a slab of cork and some grape vine for my non-desert animals, but.. it works.
here are shots done with the other set up.
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JBReptiles

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Nice,
Ive been useing white lights.But i might start useing a floresent.Thanks
Its not getto.Mine was much worse.Mine come out alright.But their kinda orangy
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bleeding_sarcasm

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what kind of camera are you working with? there should be a "white balance" setting on your camera, and i prefer to use "custom" where you hold a white piece of paper under your light source and set that as the white balance, makes the colors turn out alot better regaurdless of the color of light. flourescent light is very tungstien [blue-tinted] and my old point and shoot had issues, because the florescent pulses, instead of being consistant, and so half my shots would end up dark/under exposed.

here is the same light set up, with the same light, without the custom white balance. :?
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good shots, but the color is horribly off. ruins the whole thing, and there is only so much you can "fix" in photo editing programs.

its always esp hard to edit the color of a picture when it is a more-intensifyed color of the animal in the picture. like you cant cut out the orange without taking away all the orange in the geckos, which still wouldnt be an accurite representation.

then again, a blue-hue, from a florescent, would cancel out alot of orange, so you might end up with "normal" true to life color in your pics. its worth a try, this is my set up till some day, the lighting fairy grants me an alien bees set up, macro ring light, and maybe some SPACE to work haha.

sometimes "auto color" is enough. sometimes not. :| this still looks really "green" to me, then again it might just be my monitor [which makes everything look to dark] and i AM running a pc instead of a mac [which handle color alot better.
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i tried messing with that picture [briefly] and i just made it look straight out of the 70s haha :oops: . its still a very nice shot, i wish i could get my geckos to cuddle up like that. you use moss for your pictures? do you wet it first, or keep it dry? i think i might have to steal that area :) :oops:

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edit : woopse, i didnt realize that pic was so big. my bad.
 
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SelectGex

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miss libby said:
A simple answer that you use it for photography purposes only would have been sufficient. i didnt mean to offend you if i did. I dont agree that any including non silica based sand is a suitable substrate for leos. But i do agree that the background in your pictures look natural and your leos look well cared for.
Thank you for the quick answer im not used to getting a fast response in this forum. Your leos are very beautiful and your pictures are awesome. thank you
for showing them to us. :wink:
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This should probably be taken to a new thread, but I figure keep it here.

I disagree totally! Non-silica base sand is fine. Sand would not be the correct term though, but calcium carbonate instead. I use calcium carbonate as my substrate with over 80 breeders at one point and countless babies.. though I dont use it for babies simply because I like paper towels for them.. easier to catch crickets and shed when they need to. Calcium carbonate is simply ground limestone, less than one percent silica, and is very close to the calcium supplements we use in the reptile hobby, just coarser.

But that's my two cents with a few years of breeding to back it up.
 
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bleeding_sarcasm

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SelectGex said:
This should probably be taken to a new thread, but I figure keep it here.

I disagree totally! Non-silica base sand is fine. Sand would not be the correct term though, but calcium carbonate instead. I use calcium carbonate as my substrate with over 80 breeders at one point and countless babies.. though I dont use it for babies simply because I like paper towels for them.. easier to catch crickets and shed when they need to. Calcium carbonate is simply ground limestone, less than one percent silica, and is very close to the calcium supplements we use in the reptile hobby, just coarser.

But that's my two cents with a few years of breeding to back it up.
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thanks for sharing.
 
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