Gecko help
- Thread starter Southjerseycichlidz
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Wish I knew, little crackers though!
Never did keep a leopard though, I had a banded gecko
the 1st one maybe Bannana Blizard or Super snow Blizzard.....for the other, hmmm...maybe some type of Bell or Raptor, kinda looks like Snow Bell
I'm pretty sure the first is a hypo or het hypo and the second looks like a normal.
I bred mine a few years back,a normal male to a hypo female and I got two females one looked like the top pic and the other looked like the bottom pic.
I bred mine a few years back,a normal male to a hypo female and I got two females one looked like the top pic and the other looked like the bottom pic.
the the last pic is the mother and the first two pics are the daughters. I don't have a pic of the father 
in most species it is not noticeable sometimes they can be a little lighter color but in leopard geckos you tend to see the reduction of spots but on the head and tail with a darker body then a "super" hypo. or at least that is what I have observed in my animals.
then what you are seeing is a Line-bred, Dominant or Incomplete Dominant trait......there are only Hets. for recessive genes; recessive genes have no visual cues in heterozygous form. Occasionally you may see an individual from a "normal" clutch with or without Hets. that may have unreliable genetic markers, but these however are exactly what I just called them - unreliable.
They can be useful to set a guideline for what you'd like to breed said individual with to exploit that particular marker/trait, but is in no way guaranteed. Pairing Hets and supposed-Hets with each other is simply a game of Mix-and-match followed by wait-and-see, followed by hoping in one hand and crapping in the other. lol
What you might think you see is a marker for hypomelanistic, but what you really see is probably just a lighter colored individual just by chance line-breeding that may or may not happen to BE Het. for Hypo