difference between baby wild type and baby hypo tangerine?

FoxGeckos

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ive recently had an egg hatch from a hypo tangerine x mack snow (still trying to find out if he is het bell, but guess i'll have to wait until i get a bell female for him)

ive searched around on the internet to find differences, but i cant seem to find any major ones

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this is the baby (colors are pretty correct, maybe a bit more yellow)
so is there any way to tell what morph she is right now or do i have to wait until she starts getting spots?


if it helps, here are the parents

father
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(his tail is on the thin side because this was taken shorty after we came back from a week and a half-long vacation, its nice and plump now!)

and this is the mother
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im mainly curious because my friend had been asking (since the baby is going to him once she has her first shed/starts eating/when he has a tank for her set up [hes getting a 20 gallon for her[[plus a second hatching that should hatch around late october/early november]] so no worries])

thank you to anyone who can help!
 

MizTwisted

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Hello! It will be very hard to tell at this point, i have had babies look like that and have the banding turn into thick spotting, and I have also had babies that look identical lose all of their body patterning and turn into a Super hypo tangerine carrot tail! With those genetics and the look of the parents, it definitely has a chance of being hypo. (But again, impossible to tell yet) :)
 

Solagratia500

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Usually if it's a tang the black will be a bit more dulled out, almost greyish. Give it a week or 2 and you should see significant greying out if it is! Then the grey will fade completely
 

Tokaybyt

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Loooooooooooong ago it use to be relatively easy to tell if a hatchling from hypo tangerine was going to develop into a hypo tangerine, hypo tangerine carrot-tail, or a super hypo tangerine carrot-tail baldy. The following images will attempt to clearly show just that. In this case it will be from a Hine-line hypo tangerine (non-carrot-tail, non-baldy) crossed to a hypo tangerine carrot-tail.

CT-hatchlings.jpg - pay attention to one on the left, the first 4 images below will show his development. Note that even at hatching his neck and head are orange-ish and the body bands are faded, whereas it's sibling on the right is significantly darker.

CTLG02-1.jpg - post-hatch shed begins
CTLG02-1-1.jpg - post-hatch shed complete
CTLG02-1-0002.jpg - 2.5 months old
CTLG-02-male-0002.jpg - 9 months old and pushing 40-50 grams IIRC

CTLG02-2.jpg - this is the right gecko from the first photo, post-hatch shed.
CTLG02-2-0001.jpg - 2 months old and around 15 grams
CTLF-02-2.jpg - 7 months old and probably around 30 grams.
 
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