which morphs are meaner / nicer than others?

[ReptileMan27]

I can tell you from experience, my male blizzard is insane lol. I have never had a leo in my years of keeping leos act like this blizzard. He will freak out and try to bite. Otherwise then him I have never noticed any difference in dispositions with any the morphs I have kept..

 

[david13]

I notice that a lot of people that have Blizzards or BB have a mean one..

 

[MSMD]

My (Tremper) Blazing Blizzard is quite the sweetie.

Never bites.....although he is the one to occassionally pee on someone.....:main_rolleyes:

 

[Gecko Ranch]

i know color has nothing to do with it, but maybe over inbreeding to get that color is why say many bb are mean ?

From many years of personal experience dealing with carrot-tails, which are my most common leopard gecko I keep from the results of other folks' inbreeding (I don't do it), I would say this kind of meddling with mother nature just may produce this kind of result.

As far as the "hot-female" theory - it has not panned out for me in 15 years of breeding leos.

I would agree that if you really work with a gecko you can get most of them to calm down. I always feature "how to make friends" with leopards on my FAQ and care sheet. I find that most folks unrealistically expect the leopards to instantly be friendly. When was the last time you liked it when some stranger grabbed you and expected you to be fine with that?! :dizzy2:

Newbs crack me up when they ask "do they bite?" and my other favorite "do they have teeth?" About the bite, I tell folks they have to "earn it." I love the responses I get from that! :laugh:

 

[fallen_angel]

As far as the "hot-female" theory - it has not panned out for me in 15 years of breeding leos.

That is very interesting, so you would not recommend lowering the temps for males (gradually) after three weeks incubating? We initially did this with our first batch, but once we lowered the temp, we decided to keep it at 84 degrees for the rest.

 

[fallen_angel]

My (Tremper) Blazing Blizzard is quite the sweetie.

Never bites.....although he is the one to occassionally pee on someone.....:main_rolleyes:

LOL unfortunately my beardie has pooped on me several times in the past!

 

[Gecko Ranch]

That is very interesting, so you would not recommend lowering the temps for males (gradually) after three weeks incubating? We initially did this with our first batch, but once we lowered the temp, we decided to keep it at 84 degrees for the rest.

The "hot female" theory is that females who hatch as a result of higher temp incubation, let's say over 85F, are nasty due to the predominance of male hormones that supposedly result from being incubated that hot. What I am saying is I do not find this to be true in my experience, and that is also the experience of many other breeders. Marcia of Golden Gate Geckos also finds this to be the case as she explains earlier in this thread.

Hope that's clear!

 

[Dragoon Gecko]

I respectfully disagree with this. If it was the case, then by sheer virtue of the higher incubations temperatures, males would be more agressive than females. This is simply not the case.

I honestly believe that the disposition of a leopard gecko is different for individual geckos.

I agree.
My Mack Snow Ghost Jungle incubated male "Merlin" turned out to be a female.
She always was and still is one of the sweetest personalities I have EVER seen in Geckos..
I also had a few geckos I bought as "incubated males" turned out to be females aswell, and none of them showed an agressive behaviour.
So, I personally think that the caracter of the parents, aswell as the handling of the breeder plays a more important role than incubation temps..

/Rebecca