Some Very Colorful Enigma

Working with the Enigma Gene for the last few years has proven to be very exciting. There have been many really cool Combos produced and I think as breeders we are just scratching the surface with this wonderful gene. The one thing that many breeders working with the Enigmas have found though is it a bit harder to get the rich orange coloration into them. The babies produced may start out very orange and then as they develop lose the color or never have it to begin with.

It appears evident now that the first year Enigmas were sold the ones that had orange coloration on them were Het for Tremper Albino and the ones with no color were either Het For Bell Albino or just Normal Enigmas. Hence it has been easier to get the color into the Het For Tremper as the following example shows. This is what your typical Enigma Het Tremper looked like.

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That one looks pretty good but a lot could be done to improve the coloration. Here are some examples from the third year of working with the Tremper’s. These are all Enigma Het for Raptor. Now we are getting someplace.

The first picture is one of the Females.

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The second one is also a Female and is my favorites. What a crazy looking Gecko.

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Here is a really cool Male that I produced.

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I knew the hardest strain of Albino to get the color into was going to be the Bell’s. There were just not that many people working with them. If I was going to have a fighting chance I was going to have to get some from Kelli Hammack from H.I.S.S. Kelli fixed me up with two incredible Females and I bred them to my Best Tangerine Enigma Male. He ended up proving Het for Bell and these two Females are the best of what I hatched out. They have a way to go but at least it’s a start.

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I was not worried about getting color into the Las Vegas Albinos. All I had to do was get one of Dan The Fireman from Hot Geckos Firewater’s, and I would be set. I bred an incredible Female I picked up from him to my Best Tangerine Enigma Male and check out a couple of the offspring.

This is a really nice Male.

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Here is my favorite one. He is totally outrageous.

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As nice as all of the ones above are the next ones coming up are my favorites. They are my favorites because all in house animals produced them. I bred my original Enigma to a Hypo Tangerine to produces Tangerine Enigmas. I bred the nicer of the two Tangerine Enigmas to some of my Tangerine Dorsal Stripe Females. My Hypo Tangerine and my Tangerine Dorsal Stripe lines are totally unrelated so I was able to do my own in house out crossing. One of the Males I produced is this guy. Paul Allen from Bright Albino has been over my house a few different times and he always makes me take out this one. LOL Here he is.

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Here is a headshot of him.

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I bred the Male above to a completely different group of Tangerine Dorsal Stripe and the hatchlings below are the first four I have hatched out so far. Each one has a different Mother and looks a little different from the others.

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ENDS09-4 WOW!

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I have no idea how all of these are going to develop but my initial impression is they are going to be “Too Cool”. LOL

I hope you enjoy the pictures.

PS Some of you may or may not know but I am going to be a guest on Reptile Radio Saturday night (actually Sunday morning 1/25/09 12:00 –1:30 AM), and we will probably be talking about some of these animals. Reptile Radio can be found at the following link. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/reptileradio If you can’t listen to the show live please make sure you download it so you can listen to it at your convenience.

those are awsome! i really like the first one!

those are sweet. I gotta get me some leopard geckos!

Thanks for sharing! :D

Smoking leos !!!

Those are some lookers!

Awesome little geckos, great pics too.:gj:

Those are just ridiculous! I can't even stand looking at all of the amazing leo morphs because I want them all!

I love the Enigma gene, but not usually for the orange colors.

My Enigma het BA has awesome yellows, purples, and blues.. and I love that color combination.

Great looking geckos though! That last one is smokin!

Holy smokes those are some pretty enigma's :O :gj:

wow, i'm going to eventually have to pick up some enigmas now.