green crestie pics..

[JLC]

You sure that's not a crestie/froggie hybrid???



VERY cool! I can't wait to see what they look like when they grow up!! (And if they'll pass those colors on to their offspring!)

[ADEE]

thanks judy & justin they are really neat looking. im so pleased to hear everyone else here likes the way they look too. i have high hopes they hold those colors and eventually (in the future) to breed them and see what we can get. for now im just enjoying them. they are really fiesty little babies ill tell you what!

Im thinking about naming them Trick and Traid (a nicer spelling for trade) I actually had a female bearded dragon that was ready to be bred that came with my 55 gallon tank i just got and since im not breeding bearded dragons and shes much too big to live with nikon and canon... i traded her for the two cresties of my choice, at the moment it looks like he definetly got the better deal but if i can get these jade green cresties to eventually breed i will have made out well too... so trick cause they came home on halloween and traid cause they were result of trade anyone else think thats clever? lol, i do already have a hallo for halloween but i think names like ween and treat are kind of silly

this morning when i took them out for a quick nose dip in cgd the one lighter one was a really neat shade of pale green.. not any other color except pale green with a couple dalmation spots

[ADEE]

my account on that forum is pending still but i am able to browse, just cant post yet... here are some green cresties i found there

http://www.pangeareptile.com/forums/...ad.php?t=12262

thoughts?

[mlededee]

there are some really nice geckos and some that i wouldn't really consider green at all in that thread, but they are all adults. i wonder if any of them looked similar to yours as hatchlings. that's the thing that gets me about yours--i have never seen that kind of color on a gecko so young.

[ladywhipple02]

Same here... I'm hoping that those little kids of yours hold that jade color on through adulthood. They will seriously be one of a kind.

EDIT: Well, two of a kind

[Kristy]

Umm... Wow. I don't even know what to say. I am with Emily. I have never seen cresties that color. Especially babies.

Hold on to those two, and I can't wait to see them grow up. At least they grow pretty fast lol.

I am green with Envy. Pun intended.

They are gorgeous. Too bad we can't see the parents. That's what I love about these guys. You never know what you are going to get.

[mlededee]

ashley, one thing to keep in mind when thinking about breeding these two is that they likely have the same parents, so if they turn out to be male and female you should not breed them together. it may be a challenge to try to find something similar to breed them to, depending on how they turn out!

[ADEE]

ok, thank you.. i wasnt sure if it were like rats that you can "line breed" i do have hallo and while he isnt green at least i would know the first generation lines.. im for sure holding onto them i was really taken back by them at first sight and now i know why thank you everyone for your input im very excited to see them grow and change too (well hopefully not change too much) i will keep my eyes pealed at the local expo in two weeks and see if i can find any other green babies there (To see popularity here, is it possible its my area where we live that they arent really that unusual?) one would think if someone was into breeding they would hold back an animal that was "different" and my breeder didnt see too inpressed.. perhaps he gets them more often than he told me.. either that or hes so concerned with keeping up with supply and demand he doesnt take the time to do it as long as hes producing

[mlededee]

you can breed sons to mothers and daughters to fathers, but brother to sister is generally not a good idea. cresteds tend to be on the inbred side anyhow because the group that was originally brought into the country was so small.

to answer your question about them being no unusual to your area--they are just plain unusual no matter where you are. maybe the breeder you got them from doesn't think they are anything special but since he produces for wholesale purposes i doubt he holds much back or pays a lot of attention to the babies he is shipping out since he is doing it in large quantities.

it's also kind of like this--i might produce a gecko that i don't really care for. it's different than the rest of what i have but to me it's nothing special. i sell it to someone who does think it is something unique and they show photos of it to other breeders and find out that there isn't really much else out there like it. too bad for me for selling it, but not a huge loss since i didn't really like it to begin with.

[ADEE]

ahhh yes, that makes alot more sense and really sheds some light on things.. i do know that he breeds/sells them but is getting more into the morph balls lately... so perhaps your right on. hes meeting demand, making money, exc so all in all its not a loss to him to "loose" a couple babies that are months away from producing anyway

i did get a couple more pics of them together so you can see them compared to each other too... bbs with those, besides i thought you might like to see a few more pics