What Am I, Really?

golsama

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I recently paired a male gecko that was sold to me as an Eclipse het RAPTOR with an Emerine Redstripe female. This is the first time either gecko has ever been bred. The female has laid 5 clutches so far (2 still incubating). The first two clutches each yielded 1 hatchling. The 3rd clutch was not viable and the last 2 appear fertile. I am questioning the validity of the morph the male was sold to me as.

Mo (Male)

Mo 4.jpg Mo 6.jpg

Emma (Female): She just laid so she's a little thin.
Emma 1.jpg

Hatchling from 1st clutch. The first picture is from its hatch date (06/03/14) and the second is from today. I'm thinking it's an Enigma?
Sway1.jpg Sway5.jpg


I'm questioning if Mo isn't an Enigma Eclipse?
 

indyana

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Doesn't look Enigma to me either, just has an interesting pattern (Jungle?). Those sorts of patterns are expected to pop out when working with striped geckos. Not Eclipse unless you're female was het for Eclipse though. More like het Eclipse and possible het Tremper Albino.
 

DrCarrotTail

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Enigma's usually have a distinctive orange tinge to their eyes making them fairly easy to identify. I'm not seeing that in yours. Looks like an eclipse to me. Can't tell what hets it has by looking tho.
 

golsama

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It doesn't show in the pictures but Mo (my male) has a lot of Orange in his eyes and the hatching does as well. I'll see if I can get a better picture of their eyes.
 

golsama

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I'm still working on getting better photos of their eyes. I'm questioning enigma in the hatchling because of the way it walks. When it first hatched it had a pretty significant limp. Now it no longer limps but does this little sashay/sway that none of my other geckos do. I'll get a video of Sway walking. I've since named the hatchling, Sway. Sway's tail has continued to lose it's dark color and is now almost all white. Most of the other dark pigment in Sway's body has turned grayish.

Mo, the father, does not exhibit any weird movements/walking and neither does Emma (the mother).
 

Kristi23

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I don't see enigma in anything you posted. The male is an eclipse (hets need to be proven out).
 

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