QUESTION ABOUT RAPTOR EYES

Yveskevin

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how come some RAPTORS have solid RED eyes and some have DARK RED eyes that looks almost light sold BLACK eyes?
does the albino strain they carry have something to do with it?
 

stager

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I think just variation, I have a male and female with the really dark eyes and they have produced babies with light eyes. But from my personal experience solid eye gene seems more influenced by the female. It's proved true again for me this year. Last year soild eye female to snake eyed male produced 9 out of ten solid eyes one snake. This year snake eyed female by solid eyed male zero solid eyes out of six so far.
 

Yveskevin

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Whats the incubation temp you had them on?
Did you perhaps have the temps about 90F to produce males?
i only ask because i believe ron tremper said that temperature will determine not only the gender of a gecko but the coloration as well. High temps will produce a more lighter coloration, and low temps would produce darker coloration.
 

DrCarrotTail

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Trempers are influenced by temperature a lot. They seem to be affected more than the other two strains. Higher temps will produce lighter often brighter colors and eyes, lower temps will produce darker colors and eyes. Individual variation probably has something to do with it as well. I know their body colors can be affected by cold temperatures after hatching but I'm not sure about their eyes.
 

Kristi23

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Often times it can be incubation. Sometimes when they're small, the eyes look almost black and get easier to see the red as they get older. Not sure if it's like body color or not. Body color can be affected by incubation, but often times is genetically passed on. If you breed two brownish trempers, you're most likely to get brownish trempers no matter what incubation temp you use. Same with two orange trempers. The color can be passed on genetically, but I'm not sure if it's the same with the raptor eye color or not.
 

Kristi23

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Whats the incubation temp you had them on?
Did you perhaps have the temps about 90F to produce males?
i only ask because i believe ron tremper said that temperature will determine not only the gender of a gecko but the coloration as well. High temps will produce a more lighter coloration, and low temps would produce darker coloration.

This works to an extent, but I've also noticed that color is passed on by genetics. I've hatched many trempers at low incubation temps and they were not darker or more brown. They had the lighter orange coloring that the parents had. So it's both sometimes.
 

Kristi23

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But keeping them at lower temps will definitely make them darker and duller.
 

DrCarrotTail

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Nutrition and temperature can affect almost any morph of gecko at any age. Better = brighter; Not so fabulous = dark and dull. Stress, such as breeding or a big move, may also affect color. Most of the changes are reversible with time.
 

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