books on creating new morphs?

[Gecko Boy]

Hi everyone,

Does anybody know of a book where I could learn about the genes of leopard geckos also how previous crosses where done overseas so I can make some new morphs for us South Africans.


Thanks a million,

David

 

[Srt14292]

www.leopardgeckowiki.com

pretty much all you ever need to know on leos mate!
Every single proven morph and when and where they were created, I would start there, I don't know if there is a book of them out.

 

[Wandering Paddle]

To start, you will likely never create a new morph. only change or add to the morphs that already exist.

i think your best resource for learning morphs and crosses would be the morphs section of leopard gecko wiki.
http://leopardgeckowiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Morphs

A good book on leopard gecko genetics/ morphs is the Herpetoculture of leopard geckos, though it is a bit outdated.
http://www.leopardgecko.com/products

 

[cassadaga]

If you mean on creating a new combo morph, that is very possible, there are still combinations left to be done, and there will be new morphs to combine. Don't get your hopes up on coming across a new morph yourself though.

 

[Gecko Boy]

No I don't mean a NEW morph I mean breed morphs that you guys n gals have overseas which we do not have ie. mack snows anyone have an idea on breeding them??

 

[cassadaga]

To make Snow babies, you will need atleast one snow or super snow.

 

[Gecko Boy]

Now to create a super snow you breed an line bred snowXline bred snow correct?

 

[cassadaga]

To create a super snow, both parents have to be a snow, but one has to be a MACK snow. I don't think line bred snows create Supers, but I'm not 100% sure.

TUG Snow X TUG Snow = 3/4 snows 1/4 normals
Gem Snow X Gem Snow = 3/4 snows 1/4 normals
Mack Snow X (any strain) snow = 1/4 Super Snows, 1/2 snows, 1/4 normals.

Does that help?

 

[Wandering Paddle]

the percentages on Tug snow and Gem snow crosses isnt always the same. Het animals and homo animals look the same in gem and tug snows( or so "they" say) and your percentages only account for het animal x het animal. If one of your dominate snow morphs were homozygous then all of the offspring would be that line of snow

Also, from my understanding, the percentages for mack x dominate snow crosses has been all over the place and doesnt fit the 1:2:1 ratio of mack x mack, though i havent done the crosses myself... so i cant speak from experience on this.

Outside of north america, your best bet of a snow morph is definitely the mack snow.

 

[Northstar Herp]

I just got a really cool book, though I can't give it an awesome review because I've hardly read any of it. But just thumbing through it, it looks pretty comprehensive. Anybody ever read it? Opinions?

http://www.amazon.com/Herpetocultur...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255636988&sr=8-1

 

[Gecko Boy]

Thanks everyone!!!! really helped me allot!!!

 

[Wandering Paddle]

I just got a really cool book, though I can't give it an awesome review because I've hardly read any of it. But just thumbing through it, it looks pretty comprehensive. Anybody ever read it? Opinions?

http://www.amazon.com/Herpetocultur...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255636988&sr=8-1

Thats the book i referenced in my first post on this thread

 

[Northstar Herp]

Yeah, I see it now...