Giants and super giants

[gothra]

Can someone enlighten me on the differences between gaint and super giant?

 

[brandy101010]

I diddn't know there were super giants but my guess would be they are bigger...or wear a cape.

 

[John N]

When you breed giants to non-giants, you should get half giants.

With super giants, you should get all giants when bred to a non-giants.

To get supers you would have to breed two giants together.

 

[DontShootMe]

It's kind of explained on the tremper site I think anything over 105 grams(male) by the age of 15 months is a super anything under from 90-104 is a giant within 15 months correct me if im wrong. Check out the FAQ on Trempers giant page.

 

[Cryptly]

Tremper's Giant FAQ.
http://www.leopardgecko.com/giantfaq.html

Genetics and a bit of Giant history.
http://www.leopardgecko.com/giantgenetics.html

 

[LeosForLess]

Its like the snows, the normal mack = the giant and the super snow = super giant.

 

[NaughtyDawg]

I think Brandy is correct, the have capes, and can leap tall vivs in a single bound.

 

[ExcessiveHerps]

It's kind of explained on the tremper site I think anything over 105 grams(male) by the age of 15 months is a super anything under from 90-104 is a giant within 15 months correct me if im wrong. Check out the FAQ on Trempers giant page.

Its over 110 grams by 12 months of age for super giant males and over 90 for super giant females.

 

[LeosForLess]

I thought it was over 120 by 1-1.5 months?

 

[ExcessiveHerps]

I thought it was over 120 by 1-1.5 months?

straright from ron's site
that maybe but his site and book states what i wrote above thats not to say they can't get larger after 12 months of age

 

[BalloonzForU]

I thought it was over 120 by 1-1.5 months?

Now that would be on LARGE hatchling!

 

[LeosForLess]

LOL years not months, sorry.

 

[chad e]

first Ron Tremper said the Giant gene was a recessive trait. about a year or two later, Ron corrected himself and sent out an email to the people who had purchased a giant from him and said it was in fact co-dominant. it said basically this (which i pulled from his website):

Findings show that when a Super Giant is bred to a normal-sized leopard the resulting heterozygous (Giant class) young tend to be intermediate in size between a normal and a Super Giant. The largest such hets possibly have some other genes contributing to their size. Super Giants can only be obtained with certainty by breeding Super Giant to Super Giant, but when the genes meet from two of the largest hets the probability is high of producing an unusually large homozygous or Super Giant, as well. This explains how Moose occurred. In my opinion, these genes behave as the first known case of co-dominance in leopard geckos.

 

[boutiquegecko]

Well wait, what about all the non albino geckos that were for sure not bred to that giant line who are the same sizes as giants? What do we call them and how do we go about proving what they are? Are they just big leopards or fat or extra long? Or could they possibly be carriers of the gene as well?

 

[Jayyoung]

I have a large male I don't know if I can call it a giant or not. I guess going by the FAQ on Tremper's page he could be a giant. He was 100 grams at 12 months of age. His weight and length have plateaued at 2 years old 118 grams and 10 inches in length.

 

[shawn119]

LOL

 

[KelliH]

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[Nigel4less]

Another Giant thread.... :/

 

[KelliH]

Sorry for the bump, I was smelling a troll in here.

 

[gothra]

Another Giant thread.... :/

Note the date (2006), I was thinking the same thing and then noticed I am the one who started this thread...lol (this is embarrassing ).