I want to ask for help，Because I wonder....

[mzzd]

it is what?
Hyper Melanistic?blizzard? I wonder....

 

[acpart]

Sometimes these guys are called "midnight blizzards". I find that my blizzard's colors can vary from pale nearly white, to gold to dark purplish.

Aliza

 

[Embrace Calamity]

Sometimes these guys are called "midnight blizzards". I find that my blizzard's colors can vary from pale nearly white, to gold to dark purplish.

Aliza

Do you mean the colors in one gecko change, or different geckos of the same morph vary?

~Maggot

 

[LIZARDLOVER]

Do you mean the colors in one gecko change, or different geckos of the same morph vary?

~Maggot

He means that the different geckos of the same morph change. I had two geckos like this (one of them a stellar example). Personally, I think it isn't really a morph so much as it is a melanistic type thing, where the gecko simply has darker pigment. If you notice, it retains the same colors and patterns of a regular leopard just darker.

 

[Embrace Calamity]

He means that the different geckos of the same morph change. I had two geckos like this (one of them a stellar example). Personally, I think it isn't really a morph so much as it is a melanistic type thing, where the gecko simply has darker pigment. If you notice, it retains the same colors and patterns of a regular leopard just darker.

Okay, I couldn't tell 'cause he/she said "blizzard's" instead of "blizzards'," but the latter made more sense, so I wanted to double check. I haven't really seen many of them in person. Honestly don't pay much attention to them, as they're not a morph I particularly care for.

~Maggot

 

[mzzd]

"midnight blizzards".！That makes two of us，because it‘s tail have some white！but I'm not sure..

 

[mzzd]

I think it might be possible to temperature，Just I think！

 

[Ozy]

Not a Blizzard. I can see some spotting on it. Looks like a really dark SHTCT. I have a Banana Blizzard and this is what she looks like. As you can see she has NO patterning on her at all and no different colors like yours has.

 

[DrCarrotTail]

Its hard to tell what the gecko is from that picture. IMO I don't think blizzard is an unreasonable guess but it might also be a patternless or a low quality SHT.

I'm thinking a midnight blizzard is kind of like a chocolate albino? If so, the darker color is caused by incubating eggs at the lower end of the temperature spectrum right before hatching or an adult geckos color can change if they are cold for an extended period of time (although not as drastically as a hatchling I think). The cooler temperatures causes some of their color to turn a dark lavender/purple color. I'm not sure if it stays like this for life the gecko's entire life or not.

 

[Embrace Calamity]

Its hard to tell what the gecko is from that picture. IMO I don't think blizzard is an unreasonable guess but it might also be a patternless or a low quality SHT.

I'm thinking a midnight blizzard is kind of like a chocolate albino? If so, the darker color is caused by incubating eggs at the lower end of the temperature spectrum right before hatching or an adult geckos color can change if they are cold for an extended period of time (although not as drastically as a hatchling I think). The cooler temperatures causes some of their color to turn a dark lavender/purple color. I'm not sure if it stays like this for life the gecko's entire life or not.

Well I've seen a bunch of people on here post geckos they've rescued, and after a while in proper conditions, they brighten up - though that could be due to a lot of things, but proper temps could easily be one of them.

~Maggot

 

[DrCarrotTail]

Yeah I agree they brighten up under proper conditions but I don't know if geckos that were incubated for certain coloration retain that color throughout their lives or if they will also brighten up. I'm inclined to think they stay that way as I have a Sunglow that the breeder told me escaped as a hatchling who is a nice dark lavendar color. She's now full grown and has lived in a nice warm tub for over six months and is still almost the same color as when I got her. I'll find out in a few years if she stays that way long-term or not! haha.

 

[lora01fl]

We have two that were sold as "midnight" blizzards that my son bought as a yearling and a two year old. They are both the same color now as they were at the show at the show, an almost chocolate color. They are housed in a rack with proper temps and do not change color at all. One is now two, the other three. The breeder told us that they were incubated specifically for this color using temps, but I do not remember the combo he told us.

Ours do not show any spotting or color variations like what can be seen on the head and tail of yours though so I would hesitate to call it a blizzard, looks more like a dark SHT, but I have been wrong before (and will be again!).

 

[acpart]

What I meant in my original post about blizzards changing color is that my one blizzard (actually she's a Mack snow blizzard) does appear to be different colors on different days. I imagine there are also blizzards who look the same all the time.

Aliza

 

[mzzd]

Not a Blizzard. I can see some spotting on it. Looks like a really dark SHTCT. I have a Banana Blizzard and this is what she looks like. As you can see she has NO patterning on her at all and no different colors like yours has.

Banana Blizzard ！wow！Looks good！but really dark SHTCT？I don't know what it is，Gene or selection breeding?

 

[mzzd]

We have two that were sold as "midnight" blizzards that my son bought as a yearling and a two year old. They are both the same color now as they were at the show at the show, an almost chocolate color. They are housed in a rack with proper temps and do not change color at all. One is now two, the other three. The breeder told us that they were incubated specifically for this color using temps, but I do not remember the combo he told us.

Ours do not show any spotting or color variations like what can be seen on the head and tail of yours though so I would hesitate to call it a blizzard, looks more like a dark SHT, but I have been wrong before (and will be again!).

Change is complex！but Should be the reason for low temperature！

 

[mzzd]

What I meant in my original post about blizzards changing color is that my one blizzard (actually she's a Mack snow blizzard) does appear to be different colors on different days. I imagine there are also blizzards who look the same all the time.

Aliza

This I agree