a wonderment

[Foxy]

I took Rio to a reptile night, and while they where looking at him they said he was a hypo or hybino.

as far as I was concerned he is a tangerine bell albino. bo why did they say he was something else.

 

[sunshinegeckos]

A Hybino is just a mix of the Hypo and Albino strain. Its because he has no spots on his back. I would say Bell Hybino.

 

[Foxy]

thanks the spot thig makes sence, but what was confussing me is all the hybino pics I have seen have no pattern. Where Rio has bands. They also said he could have some carrot tail in there because of the orrange on his tail

 

[KelliH]

He's not a Bell Hybino. Bell Hybinos have no pattern on the back, they look like this-

 

[sunshinegeckos]

Do hybinos start off with bands and lose it once they grow? I was thinking he was young and might grow into the Hybino.

 

[Foxy]

He's not a Bell Hybino. Bell Hybinos have no pattern on the back, they look like this-

Thats what I though.

so I take it my orrigonal thought on what he is is correct

 

[robin]

he looks like a normal banded bell to my. not a hybino

 

[Hankj]

Think most bells have the orange in there tail, at least the two, unrelated ones (I think), I have both have orange in the same spot.

 

[LeopardShade]

As far as I know, that is not a Hybino or a Hypo, if it was (correct me if I'm wrong) I'm pretty sure it would be hypo-ing or hybino-ing out by now. I agree with your first statement, Tang Bell Albino.

 

[M_surinamensis]

I took Rio to a reptile night, and while they where looking at him they said...

You took your gecko out of its enclosure, out of your house, to a... herp society meeting of some sort (?), where other people looked at (and handled?) him, just so they could give you incorrect information about what morph he is?

Ew. The whole concept is just... ew. Just goes to show how differently people can approach things I guess. I'm over here decontaminating myself as a precaution every time I walk into a pet store, reptile show or someone else's house even if I didn't directly handle anything and then there are people in the world who don't give a second thought to just carrying their reptiles around with them for no really good reason. People are funny.

 

[Wowoklol]

Also: Hypo just means reduced melanin in a lot of other circles. Not something very specific like it does here. Take any advice with a grain of salt.

Also +1 to what Seamus said. A bit risky there.

 

[Foxy]

The only other person that touched him was the guy that sexed him for me, the rest just looked at him in his box.

I won't be taking him out again as it realy streesed him out.

Novic owner not thinking

 

[Wowoklol]

Illnesses can be airborne. But yeah, it looks like you realize this wasn't the best decision.

 

[M_surinamensis]

Illnesses can be airborne.

That is true.

I find that a lot of people misunderstand what airborne actually means though. It's a term used to describe disease causing agents (generally bacteria or viruses, rarely protists or some fungal spores) that can become suspended in the excretions of an infected host- potentially infecting new hosts if contact is made. It's illnesses that can travel through the fine mist produced by coughs and sneezes and breath, staying infectious for a time in that little bit of saliva or humidity or sputum rather than immediately dying/becoming inert upon expulsion from the body.

It does mean that contact of a less significant nature can spread the disease, but it does not mean that the disease is flying around loose in the atmosphere, traveling through air the way fish swim through water. It does mean being in contact with the moisture expelled with a cough, a sneeze, a breath, saliva or sometimes sweat (obviously reptiles don't sweat); some kind of medium that is dissipated into the air.

 

[Foxy]

Illnesses can be airborne. But yeah, it looks like you realize this wasn't the best decision.

being he only eaten 6 mealworms since, deffinotly not the best thing to do. Feel a little guilty now.