What kind of leo do I have?

[mascutt]

First off, I want to thank you guys. As a new leo owner, you cannot know how unbelievably helpful you have been for all my questions. Despite all the research I did before I bought her, there's been so many other things I've run into which are not covered on care sheets. So, I'm so glad I found this forum and that you guys are so helpful.

I've been trying to do alot of research to see if I could discover what branch of the leopard gecko family mine came from. I've already learned that what I thought were snake-eyes was wrong, but I'm still interested to learn more about my breed.

Since her last shed she has started to lose the spots on her back. I can compare pictures from the day I brought her home to those taken yesterday and she has a more solid mass of yellow on her back. Between her eyes her skin is starting to turn green (God I hope this is not some kind of parasite or sick). In certain lighting along her back she appears to also have a slight green tint. I've tried to take pictures of it so I could post here and see if she's ok, but the flash makes the green disappear as it's so faint. When I compare pictures of leos online to mine, the patterns of her body seem closest to (some; not all) emerines and also to the eclipse.

Which is the most common leopard gecko out there? The type most of your pet stores are going to carry?

Thanks
David

 

[Samantha]

Depends on the store and its common for certain morphs to loose spotting between sheds

 

[mascutt]

So a pet store could carry an elite breed without even knowing it? Not that it matters to me, I have no intention of getting rid of Lola (LOL - she's my baby), but I just like to know all I can about my animals... I'm the same with my dogs

 

[Tony C]

I would consider Lola to be a High Yellow. The pet stores in my area seem to carry mostly tangerines, with the occasional Patternless, or aberrant/jungle "normal".

 

[mascutt]

Sweet! I will look up High Yellow. I've not heard of that one before. Thanks!

 

[L-G-C]

At a chain petstore I found a bell mixed with trempers that started to get some tangerine but unfortuantly there was an unkown problem and she had to be put down. She(or he we never got to know) was going to be really pretty though. So I guess its possible.

 

[LeopardGex01]

A local pet store here carries tangerines, patternless, patternless albinos, normals, high yellows, mack snows, super snows, and a few others. It really depends on who supplies the pet store. :main_yes:

 

[mascutt]

As much as I looked up how to care for leopard geckos before I bought her, I didn't realize at the time there were so many kinds. Of course, every time I go to the pet store now I look at the leos to see what kind they are, but they haven't had any in like the one I got. They ones they have now look almost like orange sherbet. LOL Very pretty though!

 

[newfieb]

lola is a high yellow leopard gecko. Even though she might be showing a bit of green (first dont worry its not a parasite or there is nothing wrong with her) she would not be a emerine. She is a high yellow showing shades of green. The others you said you seen at the pet store that were all orange are hypo tangerines. I find that high yellows change colour alot from hatchling to adult. I bought a high yellow for my very first leo. She was 8 weeks old and she was whit and purple with black lines. She did not have any yellow on her at all. Now she is all yellow with black spots. The black lines she had separated and turned into spots. It was cool though watching her change. Every time she shed the colour would be a little different