You crazy leopard gecko people...

LOOK WHAT YOU MAKE ME DO!!!!! ........ha ha....j/k....I picked up this little one today to give leos a shot...

http://www.danielhillreptiles.com/co...pardgecko1.jpg

http://www.danielhillreptiles.com/co...pardgecko2.jpg

cute little thing!https://ball-pythons.net/forums/images/icons/icon7.gif

I hear that... I'm going to have a hard time resisting them at the Reptile show this weekend. I've been wanting to get a couple for a while!


CUTE Daniel!

aaw, now see how cute it is?! :aww: now you just need to get it a mate and get your breeding colony started. :D

Cute little guy and neat newspaper...international gecko!

Uh oh! You went and got it started....soon enough you'll have leos coming out of your ears. :P


The little guys/girls are truly an addiction, and thats a great one you've got there.

Jason

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Originally Posted by mlededee

aaw, now see how cute it is?! :aww: now you just need to get it a mate and get your breeding colony started. :D

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What ya got for me? ;).......breeding was kinda the plan, but since I have never really been interested in geckos until recently...i figured I would keep one at first to see how it goes :D...I think this one is still too young to sex(looks like a female now)....

Some people don't get it, others get hooked on them...I got hooked myself about 2 years ago. The mere simplicity of their care alone makes them attractive enough. I probably spend a grand total of 5 minutes per week maintaining a trio of them. Heat, water, mealworms, calcium, done.

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

What ya got for me? ;)

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well now that depends on whether you have a male or a female there. :P

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

I think this one is still too young to sex(looks like a female now)....

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you can sex leos at one month of age and from the pics yours definitely looks over month. get me a close up of the cloacal region and i'll tell ya what ya got there. :)

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

What ya got for me? ;).......breeding was kinda the plan, but since I have never really been interested in geckos until recently...i figured I would keep one at first to see how it goes :D...I think this one is still too young to sex(looks like a female now)....

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Maybe you need a second leo with a known sex to compare this one too. :)

I agree with elevatethis, they are quite the low maintenance pets, on all eight of mine I only spend 10-15 minutes spot cleaning cages, feeding and making up the humid hides/egg laying containers. Plus they hardly take up any space....well unless you have a nice handful of them.

Good luck with "her":cool:

Congrats Daniel. Those little guys are very cute. Maybe I'll have to get my daughter one when she gets a bit bigger.

Here you go Em....i think i see two hemi bulges now....so squirmy I could not get a good look....this pic is freakin awesome...

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil.../9/7/gecko.JPG

ha ha....so what ya got?

it's a girl! girls do have slight bulges but she is lacking enlarged preanal pores which become clear to the naked eye in males at around a month of age if not before. congrats!

unfortunately i have no mate for her at this time. i just sold my last male from 2005 leaving me only with milton, my breeder male. i do have the first clutch of the season in the incubator though, and am expecting more eggs any day. :)

GREAT!....Thanks!....i have to figure out leo morphs now.....whats with all this incomplete dominance?...LMAO

for future reference:

male:

http://www.mlededee.com/herps/leos/leo_male.jpg

note the enlarged pre-anal pores along with the presence of bulges at the base of the tail.

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female:

http://www.mlededee.com/herps/leos/leo_female01.jpg

note that there is still somewhat of a bulge but the pre-anal pores are not enlarged. the cloacal opening curves inward more as opposed to being more flat like that of a male.

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GREAT!....Thanks!....i have to figure out leo morphs now.....whats with all this incomplete dominance?...LMAO

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ha haaa! i know squat about leo genetics. i know what i have and what i can make with what i have and that's about it. :rolleyes:

Most of what I've seen with leo genetics is that it's more of a selectively bred thing than with ball pythons.

There are three different types of albino and they do not mix to produce an albino though! I.E. rainwater albino x with bell albino would just give you double hets for rainwater and bell. I don't think anybody has made a rainwater combined with bell or tremper albino that's visible for both. If they have, it's not very noticeable. Anyway, I'll let you find it all out. I just have the basics of what I've got down myself.

Btw, your leo is a cutie! I want to pick up another female myself.

We just named her...Brynhild...or Bryn for short. Brynhild is the chief of the Valkyries and Valkyries are the choosers of the slain in Norse mythology.

Sweet name!

she look great...