What morph ?

[OffshoreMetal]

Hi , I recently bought a Leopard Gecko and i would like to know what morph is it. Is it just a normal one or a Morph ?
Heres the pics.

When i got him ( he was so thin )


Now ( He molted, Brighter color and fatter :biggrin


The thing that cought my attention is that He ( or she ) has some green on her head near the eyes.

 

[acpart]

The green on the head near the eyes is the eyeballs seen through the skin. The gecko is still too young to tell what it is but I would assume a normal or a high yellow.

Aliza

 

[MellowMan24]

normal het something i dont know it kinda looks like mine but the non-yellow strips are darker than yours

 

[OffshoreMetal]

The green on the head near the eyes is the eyeballs seen through the skin. The gecko is still too young to tell what it is but I would assume a normal or a high yellow.

Aliza

Ok thanks , I will post some pictures when he gets older.

Leopard Geckos
0.1.0 Mack Snow het Tremper-Leila
0.1.0 Normal het Tremper-Molly

What the numbers in your signature means ? ive seen alot of people in this forum having this.

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

The numbers indicate male.female.unsexed animals.
Example: 1.2.0 would mean 1 male and 2 females.

 

[Chewbecca]

normal het something i dont know it kinda looks like mine but the non-yellow strips are darker than yours

How can you see if an animal is het for anything?

You can't.
You only know if a leo is het for something by seeing the parents.

 

[OffshoreMetal]

Sorry for being a noob :S But what does Het means ?
I am trying to learn some of the expressions to fully understand what people say in this forum :idea:

 

[acpart]

Sorry for being a noob :S But what does Het means ?
I am trying to learn some of the expressions to fully understand what people say in this forum :idea:

"Het" is short for "heterozygous" which means "different genes" (more or less, someone can feel free to make a more exact translation). In genetics it's used to indicate that a gecko has genes for 2 different characteristics but only displays one of them, the dominant one. For our purposes, it means that a gecko has a gene for a certain characteristic but you can't tell by looking at it. A normal gecko who has an albino parent will have a gene for albino but it will not show in the gecko. We say the the gecko is "het for albino". If that gecko is bred with an albino gecko, some of the babies, the ones who get an albino gene from both parents, will look albino (because it will have 2 copies of the albino gene) and the babies that don't look albino will be considered "het for albino" ( because they have 1 copy of the gene which they can pass to their offspring).

I hope that helps.

ALiza

 

[OffshoreMetal]

Thanks , That was the best answer i could ask for .

 

[Die Allgäuer-Drachen]

I think too, it might be an high yellow, maybe an hypo when the spots on the body go away. Show us pics in a few weeks.

 

[OffshoreMetal]

Does normal Leopard Geckos develop some small dots of dark yellow/Orange near their tails ? He molted again a couple of days ago ( 2 days i think ) and i see that he is getting darker.
Heres a pic , But we do not clearly see the small Orange dots he is developping exept for the tail wich we can see small dots.

Thanks:biggrin:

 

[Allee Toler]

As he gets older you'll see even more changes. Right now, he looks like he may turn into a hypo. If his orange gets bigger with no spotting in the orange, he'll be a carrot tail.

Only time will tell. =]

 

[MellowMan24]

my normal has a very bright orange stripe at the beginning of her tail.... i'll have to post a pic tomorrow because she has molted twice sence my last pics and they dont show how bright the stripe is.

 

[Allee Toler]

It's called Shedding, not molting. Birds molt. Lol.

 

[OffshoreMetal]

oh , I tought it was Molting Like my crabs does. They shed their entire body and get soft like jello before getting hard again. But yeah , Its not the same thing. Geckos just shed their skin , Not their entire body It would be horrible. A gecko on all flesh until he grow a new skin

 

[Chewbecca]

Yes, it's VERY common for normals/high yellows to have orange at the base of their tail.
It's a very small amount, but it's common.

A lot of my hatchlings have bits of orange on their tails. I have one I just sold that has orange in the corners of his eyes.

You can see it in this picture of him. And I KNOW my hatchlings are nothing but normal/high yellow.

 

[ang3l3s]

normal

 

[MellowMan24]

i called it molting because the one site i read on thats what they called it. now that i know what it really means i feel real stupid:lol:

 

[OffshoreMetal]

i called it molting because the one site i read on thats what they called it. now that i know what it really means i feel real stupid:lol:

Welcome to my world - Population : 2 :biggrin:

 

[MellowMan24]

Welcome to my world - Population : 2 :biggrin:

lol we'll call it stupidoplis :crackup: :lol: