Our son and you all have induced us to tell this story…
We breed reptiles for a long time. We also breed leopard gecko for more than 20 years.
In 1996 an interesting and unusual female was born, she was very different from other geckos. You can see her on picture 1. It was a spontaneous mutation. After that there wasn’t anything like her. But we knew what male was her father. When she grown up, we crossed them, but only two babies were similar to the female. After one year there were born two children, which looked like the female. In the result we created the group of 1.1 parents and 2.2 their children, that became a base for a further selection. But this selection proceeded really slowly. Interesting children were very polymorphic, but they all were different from the normal leopard geckos. They had contrast yellow white background and they were hypomelanistic. One geckos had more white color, others more yellow(seldom orange) color.
We began calling our gecko’s line “White&Yellow”. We were the most interested in geckos with the least quantity of dark spots. Picture 2,3. But in the other geckos we saw a lot of interesting directions in the character of pattern. Picture 4,5,6. But we couldn’t keep them all because we also have a huge quantity of other reptiles. Our line became popular and we told everybody that these geckos are a very good material for selection, and our geckos weren’t similar to any line of leopard gecko in those times. All of known hypomelanistic morphs had very ”clean” body but spotted head or tail(for example High-yellow, Super hypo tangerine etc. Picture 7,8. Our line’s geckos are opposite, they have uncolored head and tail, like Enigma morph. First “White&Yellow” were sold in 2002. A big quantity got to Poland,less to Russia, Ukraine, Japan, Western Europe and may be to the USA.
Recently our friends have begun telling us that the new morph Enigma is very similar to our “White&Yellow” line. We tried to find information in the Internet but found really little. We were shocked by the fact that Enigma is really similar to the “White&Yellow” geckos we have. And now we have a question: How Enigma appeared? Maybe you know the answer.
And we are interested to learn the distinctive attributes of Enigma. Maybe you can help us? Because here no one know Enigma and good eublephar’s selectors are absent.
In advance thanks for help.
Maybe “White&Yellow” and Enigma are relatives.
Sergey and Raisa Prohorchik. E-mail -
sprept@yandex.ru
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