The adult I bought from a reptile store, the two lighter colored juveniles were given to me for free because of “cosmetic imperfections” (something about store policy because one had dropped his tail and the other they said was blind, hes not blind lol) and the darker juvenile I bought from a reptile store as well. I was curious if I could get some help identifying their morphs? I have a few guesses but would prefer get some more experienced opinions. 
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The adult is a super hypo carrot tail. The darker one looks like a (super?) snow black night (or other melanistic morph like black pearl). The babies look like murphy’s patternless. All of them except the adult shouldn’t be bred since their genetics aren’t guaranteed. The snow could be mack, gem, or tug; it could also be any kind of melanistic line. The patternless gecko could also be blizard.
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Oh I dont really plan on breeding them Theyre pets only, but I do plan on breeding leopard geckos in the future. arent melanistic morphs rare though? I paid only $35 for the darker one,
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It seems like it, it’s a very good price. Maybe the person paired geckos that produced a lot of them and they needed to get rid of them.
Also, I forgot to mention. Welcome to the community! Feel free to start an introduction thread and share more pictures of your reptiles.
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thank you
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I’m glad to help. If you have any more questions feel free to ask.
Ah, sorry to poke you again but do murphys patternless have red eyes? The one with no color on his back has full red eyes. Also they both have white stripes almost on their tails? (the lighter ones) And I tried to take a better picture of the darker one!
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Without lineage it’s impossible to determine the type of snow or melanistic. Red eyes typically occur when albino is present. With the better picture of the patterned one (that I originally suspected was murphy’s patternless) I’m thinking it might be albino and something else. I’m not positive since I’m still relatively new to identifying leos. @mblaney should be able to make better identifications.
I’m in the middle of a marathon veterinary conference on exotics med- tag me here again after the 20th & I’ll get back to you. 
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Ok I will set a bookmark to tag you
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Just to let you know, I will let you know @mblaney
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Just as others have said, it’s not possible to definitively identify morphs in leopard geckos visually. There are too many different genotypes (genetic trait combos) that result in the same or similar phenotype (appearance). The best example is albinism- there are 3 strains of albino in leopard geckos (Tremper, Bell, & Rainwater), and they cannot reliably be distinguished from one another visually. Also of course there’s no way to know what a gecko may be heterozygous for.
Going with the order from the first photograph, from top to bottom:
Juvie 1: This one isn’t obvious, and waiting for full pattern to develop will help a bit. Definitely Eclipse, due to the pied feet. The smeared spot pattern is associated with the Mack Snow trait (but it may be associated with other Snow morphs too, I’ve not worked with TUGs or Gems). So, either a very melanistic Mack Snow (single copy) or a very melanistic Mack Super Snow (double copy). The melanism could be from having Black Night/Black Pearl/etc. ancestry, but since those are specific lines, you can only say ‘melanistic.’ The pattern as an adult will help differentiate whether your baby is a Super Snow or Snow. So my assessment by appearance is either a ‘melanistic Total Eclipse’ (aka Galaxy), which is Eclipse + Super Snow, or a melanistic Mack Snow Eclipse.
Adult: Super Hypo Carrottail (need clear shots of both eyes to rule out ocular mutations)
Juvie 2: Albino (unknown strain) Reverse Stripe (need eye shots)
Juvie 3: Albino (unknown strain) Super Hypo. Not Patternless or Blizzard because of tail pattern. You mentioned that it has full/solid red eyes. If so, then your baby is probably an Eclipse, with very low probability of a different ocular mutation. So official description = Super Hypo Albino w/ocular mutation. Just for yourself, it’s probably a Raptor (Tremper Albino + Eclipse).
I hope that helps!
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This is a very informative post.
Is reverse stripe an ocular mutation? I have a gecko (orange with a white stripe down the spine) that I thought was reverse stripe but are there other ways to identify that morph?
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A Reverse Stripe isn’t inherently related to any ocular traits (except for maybe how Ciphers seem to often be Reverse Stripes & have Marble Eye). The Reverse Stripe just has a break in it. That happens with most Stripes & Reverse Stripes as the animal ages; only the most extreme of Extreme Bolds keep solid lines. With Reverse Striping, the marking on the tail is often as it would be for a Stripe, it doesn’t have the pattern in the middle like on the body.
Edit: I just said ‘need eye shots’ in order to tell if ocular mutations were present.
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