Orange Tails?

[corvettefan]

Right so we own two leopard geckos. One of them is a female Normal. The other is a male Normal Jungle. The past couple of sheds the female has had have brought out a lot of orange on her tail, and is covering about 40% of it right now. I just had my male out after he shed and I nnoticed a small amount of orange on his tail as well. Do Normal's show orange on their tails a lot, or could this be a gene showing or something?

 

[GeckoRing]

Sounds like they have some carrot tail in them. Tangerines develop their coloring as they grow, you have a pretty good idea of how they will turn out around 30 grams. How old are your geckos?

 

[corvettefan]

Sounds like they have some carrot tail in them. Tangerines develop their coloring as they grow, you have a pretty good idea of how they will turn out around 30 grams. How old are your geckos?

I'm not sure exactly. The female is a juvenile, and the male is a baby, but not a hatchling.

 

[leoman777]

could you post some new pics of them?

 

[corvettefan]

could you post some new pics of them?

Yeah I'm working on it. I'm going to post some brand new pics with as much color as I can get.

 

[corvettefan]

I'll try to get them a bit more blurry next time

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So what do you guys think?

 

[Wandering Paddle]

The second gecko is not carrot tail at all. that orange is just normal coloration. The first gecko does have quite a bit of carroting but it also has many black spots within the carroting and the majority of the tail is regenerated... so they are, as you suspected, normal

 

[corvettefan]

Okey doke, thanks! The carroting didn't appear until recently btw if that helps.