this is my adult male, and I’m very curious about him. he is very green in person, and gets a dark green and brown when fired up. I’ve been told he’s just a harlequin but I have a 2 other harlequins and he just looks so different from them in terms of patterning if that makes sense? (I’m by no means an expert in morph ID of course!) but im just curious what yall think he is or looks to be. he has orangish on his sides near his stomach, and dark stripes on his sides that sort of go over his back (fired up first 2 pics, fired down last 2)
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He’s one of those geckos that are hard to ID without breeding him unfortunately. I would probably consider him a tiger no matter what due to his vertical patterning, however whether he’s a phantom tiger or a harlequin tiger is difficult to say. Im leaning towards a harlequin since he’s got some amount of white on his dorsal, and his tail doesn’t strike me as a typical phantom tail. But since crested geckos are polygenic, there’s sometimes a lot of overlap between morphs. Especially something like an older gecko with mostly faded orange pattern is likely to look very similar to a phantom.
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