Differences between traits?

[Scott&Nikki]

I was wondering if there has ever been any proven differences between leos with different genetic traits. For example, does a "patternless" live loner/shorter than a "normal"? Have more defects? Lay more/less eggs? Mate more/less? Size/weight? Anything like that?? I'm not just asking about those specific traits, but any traits in general. It just seems to me that with all of the selective breeding, more than skin patterns would be effected.

 

[Zbiz]

Um... the only physical differents between morphs, beside thier color, is the giant morph. Its the only morph with other physical difference, there longer at birth and tend to be bigger around 100g or so, hense Giant. Um... not sure if this is a physical difference that you are refering to, but Albinos dont like bright lights. Thats why many pictures of albinos they are shown with their eyes closed. This is even worse with RAPTORs they absolutely hate light. If you attend a reptile show and look at RAPTOR morph they are all closing their eyes as hard as possible, I feel bad for them. But thats the only way people can see their true amazing color.
Hoped I helped.
Happy Herping!

 

[okapi]

The morphs really didnt start bring bred until the 90s. They are way too new for anyone to take a large group of each morph and watch how long each morph's average life span is and so on. The only person who has been breeding more than one max life expectancy (20 years) that I know of is Tremper, and I doubt he kept details on many of his geckos until he started aiming at selective breeding since his goal was mass production and not genetics until he started to notice that jungles produced more jungles and started breeding albinos. All the info he releases about his studies are a little cryptic. And morphs like the Raptor are too new to know much about at all, take their genetics for instance. People are still trying to figure out whats what when it comes to R/aptors. RT wasnt clear enough when he released the morphs. Sometimes I wonder if he even knows everything about that project.

I have heard about an intresting effect of the Mack snow gene in which it is said that they done seem to be temperature dependent when it comes to the sex of the offspring. Im very intrested in learning more about this. If it is true then I can incubate any eggs I get from my mack snow X blazing blizzard at a higher temp (like say 88*F) and have them hatch out faster and still get females. That could help my goal of producing giant super snow blazing blizzards easier/faster.