First 2 pics are 3-4 weeks old last pic he is around 4 months... I know there is a morph with the trait of having spot on the butt but do not know which one it is. We picked this guy up cause he didnt have the normal bands like all the others. Instead he had a very bold stripe and a dot on his rear. If its not to soon and someone could pinpoint his morph i would greatly appreciate it.
Help with Morph Please.
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It's a toss-up as to whether you'd call him an aberrant (broken bands on the body, not on the tail) or a jungle (the bands on the tail aren't broken, but they're not straight either). Some people call geckos with the dot just in front of the tail a "circle-butt" but that's not truly a morph. I just hatched a pair where one is a circle-butt and one is a circle-butt and circle back.
Aliza
Aliza
Still looking for an answer..
I was reading my new Ron Tremper book The Next Generation and it says that "Young without the black femoral stripes on the hind legs tend to be very impressive looking adults compared to geckos that hatched with dark leg stripes," ...But my question here is do i have a sort of "Stipe" leo or can normals hatch with this stripe as in pics 1 and 2 as well?
I was reading my new Ron Tremper book The Next Generation and it says that "Young without the black femoral stripes on the hind legs tend to be very impressive looking adults compared to geckos that hatched with dark leg stripes," ...But my question here is do i have a sort of "Stipe" leo or can normals hatch with this stripe as in pics 1 and 2 as well?
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The "stripe" characteristic is kind of like a continuum. It starts with either the tail or the body having broken bands (aberrant) and then when both the tail and body have broken bands that look like blobs (jungle), continuing to where the broken bands actually become head-to-tail stripes on the body (true stripes). Sometimes there is a dark stripe right down the center of the back instead of on each side (reverse stripe) and sometimes there is a stripe on the tail and no pattern at all on the body (patternless stripe).
The genetics aren't completely understood. Breeding any of the above geckos yields a significantly higher percentage of non-banded geckos than breeding 2 banded geckos together.
Aliza
The genetics aren't completely understood. Breeding any of the above geckos yields a significantly higher percentage of non-banded geckos than breeding 2 banded geckos together.
Aliza
seekn68
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I hatch baby Leo's like this all the time from my shtcb pair. They just lose All their patterns and turn into sht Leo's 
Makatak123
It's Cichlid, Not sicklid
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To me it looks kinda tangerine, but I am new to Leopard Geckos so I really dont know.
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