Picked Her up Yesterday!

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Paul-Dominic

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Yesterday I had found a great find at a pet shop. There was a Banana Blizzard Leopard Gecko on sale for 89.99! Thats pretty cheap around here (They also had APTOR for 224$, and RAPTOR for 332$) I had an extra tank and heat pad at my house so I went for the impulse buy. I checked her (definitly her) out, and she seemed perfectly fine, fat tail, all toes, good belly. Id assume shes a sub adult maybe as her body isnt as thick or long as my adult females. Anyways she was very very sleepy and her eyes strangely were closed. Anyways this is were I had started to worry...

Shes was her new Tank, and kind of walking around with her eyes closed occasionaly opening them. Anyways I tried to feed her crickets.. but nothing, just let them walk right by her! At this point Im really getting nervous now. Shes a good 32 grams (weighed her) and youll definitly see for her size she isnt underweight. So I took a few and put her back into her enclosure then I closed the light. All of the sudden a cricket walks by her and she nailed it! Alert and eyes wide open! Its as if she was too sensitive to the light, I found this so strange as my other two adults are always out and about doing whatever whenever. I heard a rumour somewhere that blizzards had weaker genetics, But I didnt think they were light-sensitive! Then again maybe its just because she was moving into a new place and such, or maybe they didnt have her conditions right in the shop. Anyways she seems to have just adjusted. She ate 4 crickets and 4 super worms last night and has defecated and its a perfectly normal poo. Anyways here she is:

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Another thing I cant help but notice that there seems there might be something weird with her mouth as you may see in some of the pics I hope its nothing though..Another side not is that her yellow colouring on the sides didnt show up at all in these pics.
 

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After rereading your post... Your gecko is a Albino Blizzard aka Blazing Blizzard... Albinos are sensitive to light hence the closed eyes...

Very nice BB!
 
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Bodon

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Thats an AWESOME BB!! i love those and if i saw one that nice for that price im sure it would be coming home with me! Update us with pics, id love to see how that little guy is doing!
 

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I almost want to say that looks like a Las Vegas Blazing Blizzard to me. If so, then the albinism may cause some light sensitivity. I don't see anything abnormal about the mouth, and you're right that the weight looks good. Congrats, She's Beautiful! :main_thumbsup:
 
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Paul-Dominic

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No way! I was actually thinking it might be a Blazing Blizzard because once I had gone home I searched Banana Blizzard (what it was labeled as in the store) and normal Blizzards in google search and noticed she didnt have dark eyes, her eyes arent bright red, or even too red at all though, so I just figured that it wasnt a Blazing. Is it certain that she is a Blazing Blizz?

Oh and as for the mouth dealie, If youll notice under her right eye there seems to be some kind of dent in her otherwise perfect "smile".

Shes still without a name right now, anyone wanna throw any out there ? :p
 
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Paul-Dominic

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Thanks everybody, I still cant get over the fact that she is a BB! :D
 

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Paul-Dominic said:
No way! I was actually thinking it might be a Blazing Blizzard because once I had gone home I searched Banana Blizzard (what it was labeled as in the store) and normal Blizzards in google search and noticed she didnt have dark eyes, her eyes arent bright red, or even too red at all though, so I just figured that it wasnt a Blazing. Is it certain that she is a Blazing Blizz?

Oh and as for the mouth dealie, If youll notice under her right eye there seems to be some kind of dent in her otherwise perfect "smile".

Shes still without a name right now, anyone wanna throw any out there ? :p

Blazing Blizzards don't have to have red eyes... You BB looks great though
 
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Paul-Dominic

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Blarklark - Her skin is actually way more pink in person, the camera did it no justice, her tail is the pinkest part on her body. She looks like a real lady, with her blue "eye shadow" lol.

David - thanks for the info lol, Is there a way I could breed Blazings to get Red-er eyes?

Update: 5 days and shes defecated 3 times :) AND she has shed! So she is doing very very well. I always get worried once I buy from pet stores but I think shes a good and hardy leopard gecko (She mustve just gotten in from the pet stores supplier, still its odd that they had the APTOR and RAPTOR leos labelled properly but had her labelled as just a banana blizzard)
 
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lucia

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She's beautiful. I think she looks like a "Lady"- that's what I would probably name her.
 

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