This is confusing but nevertheless excites me.
I may understand incorrectly but referring to this part of articles from a couple of sources;
http://leopardgeckowiki.com/index.php?title=Eclipse
Diablo Blanco is a combination of 4 recessive traits, Blizzards, Tremper Albinos, Tremper Eclipse, and Patternless Stripe.
The Blizzard Eclipse trait also randomly popped up in Blizzard groups. As of right now, there seems to be nothing genetically behind the Blizzard Eclipse. When breeding two Blizzard Eclipses, non Eclipse Blizzards can be produced as well as Snake Eyed Blizzards and Blizzard Eclipses.
http://www.vmsherp.com/LCLeopardNames.htm
Eclipse (Raptor eye)
An interesting mutation first released in combination with albinism and a few other traits as the Raptor Leopard Gecko, caused quite a stir. For good reason, as it creates a unique solid but transparent colored eye - in which the pupil and iris cannot be distinguished! Albino specimens can have unique solid transparent red eyes, as illustrated here. Sadly, it has also created a ton of confusion! Since initially released in the form of the bright orange nearly solid patterned albinos (Raptor), many have come to believe this eye trait to be synonymous with "Raptor". It is not, it is a separate allelic mutation, just one component of a Raptor. To properly be a Raptor, a gecko must possess this mutation, but it is important to understand that Eclipse can be present in non-Raptors and can be combined with other mutations. Thus we can produce a completely solid black-eyed Normal Leopard Gecko, for example.
As with all albinos, the actual color of the eye can vary from light red to near black, as described in the albinism section above.
Eclipse-eyed geckos present another unique problem in terminology. This is a simple recessive trait, with specimens heterozygous for Eclipse possessing completely normal eyes. However, not all specimens homozygous for it will actually display the unique solid eye appearance. Some will have only half the eye colored (these are termed snake-eyed) while still others may have completely normal appearing eyes. To really complicate things, they may start out solid at hatching, later changing to "snake-eyed" or even normal!
So I understand that Eclipse which only exists in 3 morphs, one of it is Blizzard, is only a random trait confirming the breeder's claim that this is the first of his hatchlings (BB) that is an Eclipse.
Based on this (please correct me) Eclipse BB is not a true DB because a BB has yellow marking while DB is purely clean? And only by breeeding it to a Raptor, and again breeding the offspring of this Eclipse BB x Raptor only then will produce a pure DB?
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