help with morph

[AlexB]

hey guys i just got this new gecko today, can you help me id it? i think its a raptor cause it has both eyes ruby red, here are some pics...

 

[AlexB]

it has some problem in one leg, it moves it weird, but its ok, i may take good care of it, hasnt eaten yet, hes probably very stressed so i will leave it alone for a while

 

[malik454]

it is a jungle raptor/ is the leg twicthing so it may be a calcium didsorder

 

[AlexB]

its not twitching is like bent, im actually giving it some calcium right away... hope it grows healty now on... do you think it will recover from his leg or is it permanent?

 

[AlexB]

heres a pic where it shows how its leg is bent, it keeps it in that position always, but he can actually jump and run pretty fast lol, its the back left leg

 

[AlexB]

any answers?

 

[jw-reptiles]

hi,

i think she is a rain water albino.
rain water albino's have sometimes also ruby eye's.

i think her leg will stay that way.

by the vet she can get an injection maybe that will help her,that's a calcium injection,she is young so you have the change that it will help her.

good luck with her.

 

[jw-reptiles]

hi,

in think she is a rain water albino.
rain water albino's have sometimes also ruby eye's

it think her leg stay that way,

by the vet she can get an injection,that's a calcium injection,that works very good,maybe she have a change with this injection that everything will be fine.

good luck with her.

 

[AlexB]

it just started eating, i bought her as a raptor, as long as i know it is a banded raptor

 

[Wandering Paddle]

it is a raptor.

 

[LG-Geckos]

it is a raptor.

yes, looks like a Jungle Raptor...

 

[AlexB]

so jungle raptor it is... how can i be sure it is not a jungle albino eclipse?

 

[Wandering Paddle]

a tremper albino eclipse is a raptor. jungle albino eclipse is the same thing as saying jungle raptor

 

[AlexB]

i tought that raptors were supposed to be patternless

 

[Wandering Paddle]

the "p" stands for patternless stripe. That basically means it is homozygous for stripe and reverse stripe. when a gecko carries stripe genetics but not a pair (het) it usually displays what we call a jungle pattern. i.e. jungle x jungle begets stripe and jungle and stripe x banded begets jungle/stripped and banded. The patternless does not mean murphy's patternless. A murphys patternless raptor is called an Ember. if a gecko expresses tremper albinism and eclipse eyes it is a raptor.

The stripe genetics are actually more complicated than that, but i dont have time to write an essay

 

[AlexB]

ohh i thougth that stripes are polygenetic

 

[Wandering Paddle]

most people used to think that. But think, how would you even go about line breeding for stripe? I think most people who thought they were line breeding were actually combining recessive traits, however, these are not simple recessive but rather incomplete recessive. Geckos can definitely be het for stripe.
Stripe genetics and head pattern genetics are my favorite things about leopard geckos.