I just got2 of these geckos from a rescue, while the male I have is a rescue from 2 years ago, can people help me identify their morphs? The first one is Max, my male, 2nd one Is Citrine, a female, and the 3rd has yet to have a name
I can definitely try but a lot of polygenic genes can only be traced by family history. And the same would go for hets for recessive traits. Regardless, I wouldn’t recommend breeding rescues since again… No family history.
But feel free to upload some photos and we can take a look
1 second while i figure that out
Awww, that’s a cute little group.
So in order of posting:
high yellow. They still have a few too many spots on the back to be considered a hypo. Just an all around nice looking Leo.
super hypo baldy albino. In 2000 this would have been considered ‘tangerine’, but the line bred tangerines are so much more orange now that I don’t really label them as such anymore. For the albino, there’s 3 lines of albino that are incompatible with each other. They’re not really a reliable way to tell them apart either.
This is one of my favorite morphs. I have one too.
wild type / normal. These actually are not as common anymore so it’s kind of nice to see one. The more common appearance of Leos in the pet trade are typically the high yellow variety like the first one.
I tend to call the ones that look like your first one ‘pet quality’ since it’s so common now
Hope that helps!
it helps a lot actually thank you so much. The last one on the pictures is super shy, is there a way to make her less likely to get scared?
If she’s new, she probably just needs time.
I had a girl that was always running as soon as she saw movement. It took her a couple weeks and some tempting her with wax worms (definitely a once in a while food, not staple diet) got her to calm down enough to not run immediately. Now that she’s older she lets me pick her up and hold her for a bit, but is not fond of it.
If yours is tong feeding you can try to slowly coax her onto your hand to eat. Eventually she should get used to your hand being there and less likely to run.
You can also try to just hang out by the enclosure with the lights a bit dim and that can help her get used to seeing you. Play a phone game or do some reading for a bit. Or even just handling another gecko where she can see and hear you should get her used to the sight/sounds
Yeah i just got her last week. She actually is already getting used to hand feeding because she tries to eat the tong part so i switched. Now my only problem is her looking at my fingers when im feeding her.
Hahah, yeah. 2 steps forward, 1 step back.
