Help with morph identification PLEASE!!!!

• Jul 28, 2014

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Hello, I'm a new breeder and I recently acquired 8 geckos off of someone from craigslist. The seller was unsure of the morphs of most of the animals if some one could help clarify which morphs I did purchase it would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks for the help,

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• Jul 28, 2014

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Well you have a super snow an albino super snow a mack snow and albino of some kind. Not real shur what the white one is. Now that being said you dont know the genetices of these animals please do not breed them. You can not mix the albino strains or the snows. There are 3 albino strains and 4 snow strains. You can not just look at a snow or an albino and say for shur wicth one it is. I would try to find out who they got them from and get in contact with them. That is if they even got them from a breeder. Make shur you do a lot of research before breeding.you should never just put them together and pray. You have to know your genetics Hope that helps sorry for the bad news and I hope things work out for.

 

• Jul 28, 2014

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My guesses would be, in order: Super snow, mack snow, albino (could be a super snow but I really don't think so. A picture in better light would help), murphys patternless and another albino. Impossible to say which strain of albino without knowing the genetic backgrounds of the parents.

 

• Jul 28, 2014

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I was told pic 3 and 5 were mac raptors by the seller can someone please confirm or denie this?

 

• Jul 28, 2014

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What do there eyes look like are they solid red or solid black?

 

• Jul 28, 2014

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Black

 

• Jul 28, 2014

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The third definitely could be a raptor but would need eye shots to show if it is eclipse or not. The fifth could be but with all that pattern I seriously doubt it. Eclipse tends to wash out pattern. Again, an eye shot would tell almost for sure. They definitely could be Snows but hard to tell in adults. Easier to see when they're newly hatched but eclipse can do funny things with snow and make it hard to tell no matter what.

 

• Jul 28, 2014

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I agree with Lisa above.
Here's what you need to know about Mack raptors:

a. in order to be raptors, they have to be albinos (which they are) and have red eyes (which, according to what you've posted they don't have)

b. They really need to be striped, which 3 is and 5 doesn't seem to be

c. Technically they need to have no pattern, though lots of people are calling eclipse albinos with stripes (or even bands) raptors.

I don't even know for sure if #5 is a tramper or not since it's so dark (though I have produced trampers that dark before).

As another poster said, if you're planning to breed them, it's not the best idea because you don't know anything much about them genetically. Hopefully you'll be able to fatten them up a bit as well.

Aliza

 

• Jul 28, 2014

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Thank you so much , regreting craigslist purchase lol.