Afghanicus eyes

[ang3l3s]

I know Eric from Oregon touched up on this on LNL but wondered if anyone else found something different about the eyes of the Afghanicus??? I find them totally different from any of my geckos eyes as well as others period!!!

 

[eyelids]

Here's my special male from Eric... The color is washed out... The brown orange color is more like copper... As far as I know there's only a few of these...

We bred him to my Afghan female and I have plans to put him with a Bell with pretty unique eyes too... I'm hoping for a female or two like him from the pure cross so we can really see whats going on... Maybe there's a super form...

 

[robin]

and maybe, just maybe its a subspecies characteristic or a locality characteristic

 

[paulnj]

Robin.... I have only seen 3 with eyes like that I can say I have had 30+ pure afghans go through my racks and only the one from Eric has eyes like that

To the best of my knowledge, all afgans in the US came from one group.

 

[ILoveGeckos14]

And what group is that?

 

[MXWreptile]

All of my afghans have those eyes. If anyone is interested in fresh blood, I can ship overseas, unrelated with anyother afghans in the US.

@Paul
From which group? Who own the group?


Max

 

[paulnj]

Max, I can pick up in Hamm

Alberto got his from europe(don't know where or who) and most (if not all) come from that group.

 

[robin]

Robin.... I have only seen 3 with eyes like that I can say I have had 30+ pure afghans go through my racks and only the one from Eric has eyes like that

To the best of my knowledge, all afgans in the US came from one group.

paul, sometimes within a natural population of a ssp you will find a sub population (not supspecies) of animals that may have a different characteristic than others of the ssp. it all depends where the original animals were collected from. these sub populations generally have a very small range and sometimes are geographically divided by rivers hills,some geographic change. this happens in boa contrictors constrictor. i am also sure this happens in other geckos and pythons as well.

i am not trying to be an ass but this is always a very likely possibility when working with pure sub species

all the afgahns may have come from the same captive group but the geographic origins of those individual geckos are a mystery.

 

[paulnj]

Agreed Robin.

 

[Wandering Paddle]

I love everything about E. m. afghanicus. I hope this proves to be inheritable...

 

[DAWNoftheLEO]

wish my cam worked...my afghans have the same deal

 

[ang3l3s]

that is exactly what i mean !! i love these eyes, hell i love there demeanor period.