Advice for a Noob

[Kaball]

Hello everyone! I am a transfer from BP.net, and I just wanted to say that this forum, so far as I know, is ranked on up there with my previous home.

I've learned a lot from BP.net and have acquired a vast amount of knowledge about Ball Pythons. I know all the morphs, all the tricks, and BP.net has little to offer me.

I'm starting to realize, as I did with Ball Pythons, that these little Leos are extremely awesome! I will definitely be breeding them as soon as I get them

Which leads me to my question.

What would be a good looking Recessive morph to get? I would like to get a Recessive Male and two female hets for that recessive.

I haven't found a good place to learn the morphs, yet. WorldOfBallPythons.com was a great place for BP morphs, but I don't know if there is something like that for Leos. If there is, that'd be great.

I look forward to reading hours upon hours here on GeckoForums.net.

Thanks in advance

Kaleb

 

[RAlbrecht]

Leopardgeckowiki has a ton of info on morphs and some pictures.. also if you are going to get into Leo's get "The Herpetoculture of Leopard Geckos" it will help a lot. I would start there and then decide what you want to do

 

[Dog Shrink]

Leopardgeckowiki has a ton of info on morphs and some pictures.. also if you are going to get into Leo's get "The Herpetoculture of Leopard Geckos" it will help a lot. I would start there and then decide what you want to do

+1 FOR sure... Glad to see a new wanna be breeder actually willing and wanting to do the hours and hours of reading before apring 2 animals together. I think the bigger problems isn't going to be deciding on what morphs you want to work with but deciding which are the new and up and commers that are going to be in demand. Make sure you have an outlet for the babies as they can add up QUICK considering the average first time female can have what is it up to 5-6 clutches her first season with 2 maybe 3 eggs each clutch all from 1 breeding.

PS welcome to the forum

 

[RAlbrecht]

The more you educate yourself on the morphs/genetics the better off you will be. But also remember you got to have a outlet to sell the young you produce, and with more and more people getting into breeding or attempting it at least, its getting harder and harder to sell leo's. Looking for new morphs is a great idea but you end up investing so much money just to end up selling young cheap so you make some of your initial investment back. I think there is still room for improvement on current morphs, maybe doing some "tweaking" of current morphs would be more enjoyable and much easier.

 

[Kaball]

Thanks for the advice! I have several friends who would most likely buy from me. I think it's neat that the females lay the eggs repeatedly. With Ball Python's there's sooo much waiting, and it all leads up to one moment. It can get pretty stressful/nerve wracking.

 

[T-ReXx]

Just my two cents:

If you really want to do well breeding leopard geckos, there are two key things to remember:

1) Color sells.
2) Polygenics can always be improved on.

Recessives are fun and easy to work with, but in reality, they are the second hardest morph type to sell in leopard geckos(Codoms being the first). Leos are different from balls in that they produce lots of eggs, mature extremely fast, and the market is already extremely flooded. If I were just getting into leopard gecko breeding, I'd pick a polygenic base like Tangs, Boldstripes, or Sunglows and get the highest quality animals I could afford and improve on them as much as possible. Fact is, anyone can make recessives, and in reality there are a ton of them out there already, and once you have the homozygous end result, that's it, no room for improvement from that point really. Polygenics on the other hand, can only get better.