Carrot Tail

[thekooliest]

I know to be "considered" a carrot tail gecko, he/she needs a lot of carrot tail.
Well how much carrot tail do they need, and how do you know how much one has (don't know how to word this better , sorry)? Also, how late would you start seeing carrot tail develop?
I got 2 young TS females from Chris a bit ago. And they are about 2 and a half months now. One is a beautiful mack snow ht bell, and the other is a normal ht bell. Today I was looking on my normal, and on the front part of the tail's sides, there were about 2 millimeters of BRIGHT orange...I'm talking "tangerine" orange. The rest of his tail is white with black spots (for now) and the rest of his body is yellow with black spots. Do you think she is developing a carrot tail???
-Sam

 

[thekooliest]

Sorry for posting it in the wrong place

 

[project1]

well my 4 carrot tails all are showing almost from birth from what i was told from the breeders. my avatar is my male

 

[thekooliest]

Anyone know about this in more detail that could help me?
Thanks

 

[RepGurl]

Check this out for info on any of the morphs/traits http://www.leopardgeckowiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Morphs
With a lot of carrot tail geckos, it gets larger as they get older. I have a female that only had a little bit (id say 10%) of carroting when I got her and now has about 75%.
This pic was taken a few months ago and she has even more now

This is a much younger gecko with a carrot tail

Hope this helps.

 

[thekooliest]

Thanks.
I'll read up on some stuff. I might have some more questions, so please check back

 

[thekooliest]

OK...Can normals get carrot tails???
Is this true??? (Found here)
Also is this picture true? (found from the same thread)

 

[GatorGirl286]

ha i just posted about this a few days ago. my normal is also showing some orange on the tail. i have a feeling ours will turn out like that top row of pictures (the non-carrot-tails) but i still think it is beautiful even if it doesnt "count"

 

[Leopardgeckosunlimited]

Most normal/wild type gecko's do have some orange at the base of the tails just like the pics and the gecko's your both descrbing. Yes, that is true even though they have the orange base they are not considered a Carrot Tail. Breeder's have their own lines by out crossing is why it can be confusing b/c they took some Tangerine geckos that had excellent tang. body color and bred them to Carrot Tails. Carrot tails are SHTCT which mean they're bodies are patterness = Super Hypo. So even though some SHTCT's have very little carrot tail they are from a SHTCT geneticlly, they're just poor examples. I think Tremper's book states 30% at least. A good way to tell the difference is the body spotting and baldies are SHTCT's. Also the base of the carrot tails are solid orange and their spotting starts after the orange, while normals/wild type gecko's will have spots throughout entire tail and in the orange tail base. Also many of them (but not all) will only have spots in the lavander sections of their tail only and in segments while the white rings going down the tail in between lack the spots.

 

[thekooliest]

Most normal/wild type gecko's do have some orange at the base of the tails just like the pics and the gecko's your both descrbing. Yes, that is true even though they have the orange base they are not considered a Carrot Tail. Breeder's have their own lines by out crossing is why it can be confusing b/c they took some Tangerine geckos that had excellent tang. body color and bred them to Carrot Tails. Carrot tails are SHTCT which mean they're bodies are patterness = Super Hypo. So even though some SHTCT's have very little carrot tail they are from a SHTCT geneticlly, they're just poor examples. I think Tremper's book states 30% at least. A good way to tell the difference is the body spotting and baldies are SHTCT's. Also the base of the carrot tails are solid orange and their spotting starts after the orange, while normals/wild type gecko's will have spots throughout entire tail and in the orange tail base. Also many of them (but not all) will only have spots in the lavander sections of their tail only and in segments while the white rings going down the tail in between lack the spots.

Thanks alot!
Sounds good, still will be a pretty sight to look at.

 

[Gecko Euphoria]

All the normals I've ever had either get carrot tails or yellow tail bases its how the hypo carrot tail came about was from a normal so its true they do some times have carrot tails sorry they are still very nice though, I woulndnt worry much about it they are almost the same other than body spots the colors are alike. Hope this helps,

Adam

I know to be "considered" a carrot tail gecko, he/she needs a lot of carrot tail.
Well how much carrot tail do they need, and how do you know how much one has (don't know how to word this better , sorry)? Also, how late would you start seeing carrot tail develop?
I got 2 young TS females from Chris a bit ago. And they are about 2 and a half months now. One is a beautiful mack snow ht bell, and the other is a normal ht bell. Today I was looking on my normal, and on the front part of the tail's sides, there were about 2 millimeters of BRIGHT orange...I'm talking "tangerine" orange. The rest of his tail is white with black spots (for now) and the rest of his body is yellow with black spots. Do you think she is developing a carrot tail???
-Sam