Breeding Possibilities- I Need Your Opinions

[waluwadjet]

Okay so i've got a pet-only leo. she wasn't sold as such, but i have qualms about breeding animals when there are already so many that need rehoming so i'm not going to breed her. BUT she's a very pretty hypo ct and i often wonder what her offspring might look like. She's a bit young in these photos but they show her colors off nicely. she's gotten more intensely orange as she's aged and has fewer (or simply maybe fainter) back spots.



since (again) i'm not actually looking to breed any of my animals this is 100% hypothetical but if you had a choice what sort of fella would you match her with and why? i'm just mostly curious to see what other folks would choose and possible results (i've used the genetics app, i'm looking for a more personal back and forth discussion)

personally i'd do some sort of red stripe just to see how things turn out

thoughts? opinions? experiences?

 

[waluwadjet]

i posted mostly old photos since i borrowed my friend's camera for them and i don't have a good one so i'm sort of hesitant to post crappy cell phone photos. this is one of the best ones though and is pretty recent of her literally right after her shed so she's very vibrant. she really isn't shy at all and will come up to greet me in mid-shed in the middle of the day

 

[acpart]

To some extent it depends on what you want to produce. One way to go would be to (hypothetically, of course) pair her with a nice deep orange male carrottail super hypo and see if you can get more orange offspring. Another interesting situation would be to pair her with a bold stripe since she has such nice contrast.

Aliza

 

[Kristi23]

You would have to test breed her to find out if she has any hets (especially albino) first. After that, I agree that it depends on what look you are going for. I always try to have an idea of my end goal for appearance and then pick my breeding geckos based off that. If she is more orange now, a hypo tangerine would be good. If she's still pretty yellow, I would go with a hyper xanthic or something similar to increase the yellow. If you don't want spots, pick something super hypo. If you like the spotty look, then find a male with more spotting.

As for anything with stripes, they are all line bred and would take many generations to really get any results since your animal is hypo.

But with anything, it's best to breed animals with known genetics only unless you plan on test breeding that animal first.

She's very pretty though!