morph help
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Tokaybyt
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The short answer....super hypo tangerine carrot-tail baldy or SHTCTB
The LONG answer...
The genetics of the morph date back to the mid to late 90s, when a gentleman in the UK named Ray Hine started offering a hypomelanistic mutation that proved to be a co-dominant trait. In working with the mutation, Ray also started to give rise to the carrot-tail trait. However, the degree of carrot-tail expression is highly variable and very unpredictable.
When some of the first Hine-line hypo carrot-tails made their way to the US, breeders like Albey Scholl (Albey's Too Cool Reptiles), the now defunct Golden Gecko (a breeder partnership that specialized in tangerines and hypo tangerines), NY Geckos, HypoTangerineDream (Brett Mazziman) started introducing the trait into tangerine and hypo tangerine leopard geckos.
Thus you have your gecko. The words super and baldy are kind of redundant as the "super" form of the Hine-line hypo results in a gecko with no body spotting (=super hypo) and no head spotting (=baldy). "Supers" or homozygous dominant animals possess 2 copies of the dominant allele that causes this mutation. Heterozygous animals, or those with 1 dominant allele and 1 recessive allele may have body spotting and will have head spotting. Homozygous recessive animals will be of some variation of normal spotting.
Here's a hypo tangerine carrot-tail I purchased from Albey Scholl back in March of 2002.
The LONG answer...
The genetics of the morph date back to the mid to late 90s, when a gentleman in the UK named Ray Hine started offering a hypomelanistic mutation that proved to be a co-dominant trait. In working with the mutation, Ray also started to give rise to the carrot-tail trait. However, the degree of carrot-tail expression is highly variable and very unpredictable.
When some of the first Hine-line hypo carrot-tails made their way to the US, breeders like Albey Scholl (Albey's Too Cool Reptiles), the now defunct Golden Gecko (a breeder partnership that specialized in tangerines and hypo tangerines), NY Geckos, HypoTangerineDream (Brett Mazziman) started introducing the trait into tangerine and hypo tangerine leopard geckos.
Thus you have your gecko. The words super and baldy are kind of redundant as the "super" form of the Hine-line hypo results in a gecko with no body spotting (=super hypo) and no head spotting (=baldy). "Supers" or homozygous dominant animals possess 2 copies of the dominant allele that causes this mutation. Heterozygous animals, or those with 1 dominant allele and 1 recessive allele may have body spotting and will have head spotting. Homozygous recessive animals will be of some variation of normal spotting.
Here's a hypo tangerine carrot-tail I purchased from Albey Scholl back in March of 2002.
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