high colored emerine eclipse!

3rd year of emerine eclipse project it is extremely difficult to get eclipses to have outstanding color. I finally have several awesomely colored het eclipse emerine and this beautiful snake eyed girl

Pretty!

Very pretty!

Thanks guys, shes actually the least colored out of all the offspring, one thing that's bad about the eclipses gene. the only bad thing about it, it washes out colors tremendously ...well that can be good or bad depending on the project, in this case its abit of a bummer ... the hets are so brilliantly colored but that's okay. A few years and ill have eclipses that look like the hets...ill post pics of the hets soon.

GreatGeckos said:

Thanks guys, shes actually the least colored out of all the offspring, one thing that's bad about the eclipses gene. the only bad thing about it, it washes out colors tremendously ...well that can be good or bad depending on the project, in this case its abit of a bummer ... the hets are so brilliantly colored but that's okay. A few years and ill have eclipses that look like the hets...ill post pics of the hets soon.

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I've noticed that some will fade, but with line breeding, I've been able to get quite a few that hold their color well. But I work with orange and not green, so I'm not sure how different that would be.

From my breeding projects with emerine, emralds and the eclipse gene ive noticed its a bit more difficult to get green color into eclipses than tangerine. I think this is because most of my eclipses...well all of them pretty much came from either a spotted snow eclipse line that are so bright yellow when breeding 2 together you will produce total eclipses and spotted tangerine eclipses, or a patterness tangerine blue spot super giant eclipse. I literally had to reverse breed the patternles stripe out of the tangerine eclipse line for it to work at all...so far I havnt been able to produce any really green geckos with patternless stripe or m.patternless genes. Super hypo even makes a negative impact on how much green shows up. I believe this is because a lot of the green that shows up on emerines is due to the tangerine over taking dark markings on the body and leaving behind a green shade when it does so....I always notice spots that fade out on a tangerine gecko start off as a lavender and when the tangerine covers that black / lavender mark it stays a shade of green. After breeding the emerines and eclipses then selectively breeding them for 2 more years its to the point where theres so much green on the body I can no longer see the effect of tangerine overtaking any markings and turning green. The babies just hatch out really nice jungle looking with the regular black markings and as they grow they develop a majority of deep tangerines, oranges, yellows, and mostly green.

Honestly Green and yellow are my 2 favorite colors on geckos and I really appreciate geckos with extremely clean tails. I actually have projects that are focusing on a completely black and yellow gecko with no carrot tail. Also I have a project that I'm working on that's focusing on getting a yellow gecko with a lot of green on it....this is probably the project that is presenting the most difficulties out of anything I have ever tried because anytime I get a nice example of a gecko with bright yellow and some green I cross it to a sibling that also shows green and the offspring come out with tangerine instead of yellow....I almost want to buy some "lower quality" high yellows and breed my emerines into them to get rid of the tangerine color.