Now that I'm big and fat.... what am I?

[RyuuKirin]

Alright... so Kirin has grown up and grown fat From pictures I've seen, normals have a lot more spots :main_huh: don't they?

and why does his tail have purple on it?

 

[RampantReptiles]

Looks to be a Hypo, definitely not a normal.

Some geckos get lavender color where the black was when they were hatchlings

 

[LZRDGRL]

A bit fat hypo

Chrissy

 

[TranceZ]

Hypo for sure. I have a nice fat hypo girl too.

 

[RyuuKirin]

alright- now the totally stupid question... what's a hypo? ... from what i found on the leopard gecko wiki it just means not as spotted? where do they come from?

 

[acpart]

Yes, that's it exactly --not as spotted. Some people say 10 spots or less on the body. There's a range in spotting from the old fashioned normals which were heavily spotted, to somewhat less spotted (the "high yellows" meaning "a lot of yellow") to having just a few spots ( hypos) to no body spots. Since most spotting seems to be a line breeding issue, it's not unusual to get the whole range of spotting if you breed, say, a heavily spotted gecko to a much less spotted one.

Aliza

 

[RyuuKirin]

i was kinda hoping i was missing something, but not as spotty works for me =) don't really care- i'd love kirin regardless

i guess now i can quit telling him to keep his spots