Help with hatchling morphs!

• May 14, 2015

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Hello everyone! I would like to introduce my first ever leopard gecko hatchlings, a cross from my male boldstripe and female hybino. I am new to leo genetics so I was curious as to what these were. A normal and a hybino? Anything else I can potentially expect from incubating eggs? I will post pics of parents and babies below. Thanks everyone!

 

• May 14, 2015

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• May 14, 2015

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Is the male het for albino? If not you will not get any albinos so no hybinos either. Some leopard geckos that are destined to lose their body spots hatch out with the "black" bands being more or a dark brown. I can't tell from the picture whether the brown ones are albinos or non-albinos that will eventually lose their spots. If the father has no albino gene, the lighter hatchling(s) will likely be super hypos but not hybinos.

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• May 15, 2015

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Unfortunately I am not sure if he is het or not, but I am curious to see what the other clutches will yield. Thanks for your help! =)

 

• May 25, 2015

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I'm kind of wondering why you crossed a hypo with a bold stripe. If you want to create bold stripes, you will need to continue to line breed with other stripes. Otherwise you're breeding two opposite things together. They will most likely look normal or possibly somewhat hypo as they age. I also don't see much striping on your bold stripe. Did it break up a lot from when it was younger? It may just be a stripe/stripe mix of some kind. Bold stripes have thick bold stripes down each side.

 

• May 27, 2015

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I believe by "bold stripe" he means to say reverse stripe even though the stripe doesn't go through the tail

 

• May 27, 2015

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I'd consider his gecko a bold stripe - some of the earlier bold stripes looked quite a bit like his before line breeding got the stripe to go all the way down the tail. Reverse stripes tend to have no color in the middle of the stripe and no black lines on either side.

Hypo is short for hypo melanistic so it will work to reduce black markings - opposite of bold like Kristi said. Your babies will probably be somewhere between yellow/orange and have a few or a lot of spots - basically all normals unless a hidden het pops up.

 

• May 27, 2015

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This pairing will take you sort of backward genetically. I don't think either hatchling look albino. I think you hatchlings will probably be normals with reduced spotting.

 

• May 28, 2015

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DrCarrotTail said:

I'd consider his gecko a bold stripe - some of the earlier bold stripes looked quite a bit like his before line breeding got the stripe to go all the way down the tail. Reverse stripes tend to have no color in the middle of the stripe and no black lines on either side.

Hypo is short for hypo melanistic so it will work to reduce black markings - opposite of bold like Kristi said. Your babies will probably be somewhere between yellow/orange and have a few or a lot of spots - basically all normals unless a hidden het pops up.

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I think some of the old stripes looked similar, but now to be considered bold stripe, I think it actually needs to have bold stripes. Otherwise it's a normal stripe. Either way, I agree that the pairing just crosses out the patterns. The babies will look somewhat normal. A few might have less spots because of the hypo.

 

• May 28, 2015

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I'd agree that the definition of bold stripe has changed dramatically over the last 10 years. My first bold stripe back in the early 2000s had only a hint of a stripe with spots down his back. My nicest one now has a full stripe down her back and tail. I don't label my babies as bold stripes unless they have the stripe down both back and tail. I figure its an easy enough trait for people to see and judge the quality of the stripe for themselves and how the gecko's characteristics mesh with their project goals without over-qualifying or mislabeling.