Yet another morph thread :P

[AcidicAngel]

Hi there! Sorry to be posting yet another morph thread lol. This one is for a friend. Early this year she adopted two female leopard geckos, named Orta and Lilly.

The story behind this pair is that she got them from a friend. Her friends sister "rescued" them but had absolutely NO idea how to care for them. They were kept in a small plastic tank with a desk lamp over them. No heat mat, they got a box of crickets just thrown in occasionally when she remembered. Eventually her friend convinced her she couldn't care for them and to re-home, her friends sister said "I'll just release them in the garden.".... Luckily, my friend got them before she could do that!
Lilly is a Normal, we know that. However, Orta has confused a lot of people. When she got her, she looked like this.

She wasn't in shed in this photo, in fact she has JUST shed the day before. The red toe is because she had stuck shed that needed removing and some of it was very old shed unfortunately. She only has one good eye as well...

So naturally everyone thought she was a Blizzard due to being grey... We could have all been wrong I suspect Murphy Patternless now...
Especially since Orta now looks like this.

She shed yesterday, hence the bit on her nose(which has now been removed) so these are her true colours...

I'm wondering if her colour has shown true because she is now being cared for properly... But not entirely sure if that would happen?

Thanks.

 

[indyana]

Yes, poor husbandry results in poor color. Geckos are always at their brightest when they are healthy and well cared for.

I can't be much help with the morph, I'm afraid. I see people taking guesses on Blizzard versus Murphy Patternless all the time, but there seems to be a lot of overlap, especially when you get yellowish Blizzards...

 

[DrCarrotTail]

Looks like a Murphy's Patternless to me but can't say 100%. Their colors do tend to get darker when they don't have proper vitamins and heat. If you're sure she has no eye in the closed socket I wouldn't worry but it could be closed because of stuck shed and may get worse or infected if not taken care of. I would try giving her a gecko sauna a couple times a week to help with shedding and make sure she's on a good calcium/vitamin supplement like Repashy Calcium Plus. If she has a slight vitamin A deficiency it could affect her ability to properly shed. To do the sauna just put a wet paper towel in the bottom of a tupperware and seal it with her inside for 10-20 minutes. Often it can be less stressful if you keep the tupperware in a warm dark place while she is in it so she doesn't feel exposed and nervous.

 

[AcidicAngel]

Yes, poor husbandry results in poor color. Geckos are always at their brightest when they are healthy and well cared for.

I can't be much help with the morph, I'm afraid. I see people taking guesses on Blizzard versus Murphy Patternless all the time, but there seems to be a lot of overlap, especially when you get yellowish Blizzards...

I thought so but wasn't entirely sure.

Looks like a Murphy's Patternless to me but can't say 100%. Their colors do tend to get darker when they don't have proper vitamins and heat. If you're sure she has no eye in the closed socket I wouldn't worry but it could be closed because of stuck shed and may get worse or infected if not taken care of. I would try giving her a gecko sauna a couple times a week to help with shedding and make sure she's on a good calcium/vitamin supplement like Repashy Calcium Plus. If she has a slight vitamin A deficiency it could affect her ability to properly shed. To do the sauna just put a wet paper towel in the bottom of a tupperware and seal it with her inside for 10-20 minutes. Often it can be less stressful if you keep the tupperware in a warm dark place while she is in it so she doesn't feel exposed and nervous.

Thanks for confirming the colour being duller due to poor care theory. It's sad but they had no calcium or anything..

As for her eye, she's had the gecko's since July and we've both had a close up look at the eye. There's no shed there and it seems to just be as if she doesn't have one. I'll tell her about the gecko sauna's, luckily this was the only bad shed she seems to have had since being kept correctly so hopefully it was a one off for some reason.

I know now she has a small pot with some pure calcium in that the gecko's can lick at when they need to and her mealworms are dusted with the same bug powder I use which is Komodo Premium Leopard Gecko Dusting Powder.

 

[seaneboy543]

She beautiful glad she is being cared for properly now well done on rescuing her glad she got good home

 

[AcidicAngel]

She beautiful glad she is being cared for properly now well done on rescuing her glad she got good home

Yeah, she's so much better now. And she'll never be without anything necessary again now
My friend had a few problems with her at first because she would only eat wax worms but now she'll eat mealworms too.

 

[seaneboy543]

That's good mine eat a mix of crickets meal worms and locus my little fatty

 

[seaneboy543]

Here's my babys

 

[AcidicAngel]

They both eat mealworms as a staple with crickets and locusts as treats

There is a problem my friend has noticed that I haven't though...

We have the same mealworm dishes, mine get filled up with 15 mealworms every 2 days and I've never had a mealworm escape. She's found her mealworms escape the dishes even when she only puts 5 in at a time. She has two dishes, one for each gecko, but they always escape... Can anyone explain this?

These are the dishes we both have, excuse Persephone in shed while eating lol.