I want to breed my female but I don’t know what I should breed her with (she’s a reverse stripe bred for high yellow)
I obviously won’t be breeding her till she fills out fully (she was taken from someone who couldn’t/didn’t care for her)
I want to breed my female but I don’t know what I should breed her with (she’s a reverse stripe bred for high yellow)
I obviously won’t be breeding her till she fills out fully (she was taken from someone who couldn’t/didn’t care for her)
Welcome to the forum @geckogodmoth! Poor little thing is definitely quite thin! Hopefully you will be able to get her filled out and healthy again! I am sure you have her best interest in mind.
I can’t help you with your breeding questions but there will be others who will be glad to advise you!
Best of luck to you and your new little girl!
Welcome! She’s super cute looking. Glad she’s in a better home now!
So here’s my advice on the issue.
If she’s already a few years old and is small from malnourishment, I would not breed her at all. Some leos over 3 years may not breed at all if they hadn’t been already.
Even as a young gecko, she can run a higher risk of eggbinding because of the rough start. So she will need to be monitored closely.
If you still want to give it a go, I would check around for interest in pet quality leos. Even if you find a high end male for her, she won’t suddenly produce high end offspring. So you would be competing with anyone selling reasonable priced fancies or the 30$ big box shop price for something fairly similar.
When I was first dipping my feet in, I had some friends that wanted geckos and I had a local pet store that would buy the others at the wholesale price of 15$ for het albinos. 20$ for albino.