A couple new pics...

[elevatethis]

[tigerlily]

:eek: Wow, that's a pink mat. Nice pics. I think the second one is my favorite. She/he looks exasperated. You can almost hear.... not pictures again.

[turtlegerm91]

WOW! that leopard gecko is gorgeous, did you buy her that way?! I want to start breeding leopard geckos i've had a female for a little over a year now, if you bred that gecko that way tell me what the parents look like, it would give me and idea of what to look for.

[wendyhoo9]

Leopard geckos are mostly line bred for certain traits. This means that geckos that have patterns and colors you like are bred together to try to refine the trait (get more intense color and/or pattern you origionally liked in the parents). These traits are controlled by more than one gene on likely more than one chromosome.

Leos do have one type of trait that is more predicatable. All three strains of albinism are recessive traits (Tremper, Rainwater and Bell, named after the people who first produced them). To actually physically show this trait the gecko must have two copies of the recessive allele (aa), one from each parent(allele = fancy word for a variation of the same gene, i.e. T=tall and t=short, both describe the same trait of height determined by one gene).

If your interested in albinos, buying a gecko that is heterzygous for albinism (Aa, one dominant gene and one recessive gene) is the cheaper option or you can purchase a full albino (aa, two recessive genes) and breed it to your female to produce all heterzygous offspring (your female is probably AA and would give her dominant gene for non albino and your full albino would give her recessive 'a' to produce all Aa babies. Of course if your gecko produces and albinos you've lucked out and already have a het female....

Okay, if that was too much thinking on a saturday I apologize. I realize most people know about the basic working of genetics but I have it from a close source that turtlegerm hasn't taken genetics yet

[elevatethis]

Yeah, I've got a 1.2 trio of these guys, 1 normal female and 1.1 banana blizzards. The "banana blizzard" morph is a cross between a blizzard and a patternless leopard gecko. that combo of traits is recessive, so I'm really going to be interested in what I end up with next year.

I dont know whether the banana blizzards will produce 100% banana blizzards, or 50/50 mix of patternless and blizzards since the banana blizzard is a combo morph. Its one of those double-recessive things that I am still clueless about how it works. I'm just going to breed them and see what pips out!

[lostboi]

great photos, they take great photos! I bet they're a blast to watch.