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Everyone has heard of the Blazing Blizzard with Ruby red eyes. The only way I can figure how someone breaded such a creature was by mixing a Chinese Leopard Gecko with some type of regular Leopard Gecko. Has anyone attempted this before?

If you raised them together from hatchling to adult, wouldnt there tempermants for each other be good?? I am going to try it but I was wondering if anyone else has ever attempted this.

THanks,
Kevin

No, you cant breed them together. They are two different species. The chinese leo is G. Luii(not exactly sure how to spell the whole name) and the regular leo is Eublepharis macularius. The Blazing blizzard is the mix of an albino and a blizzard.
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Have you ever seen an albino Leo with red eyes? I realize they are different species..but consider other animals. Like a dog for instance. Sure you dont see a poodle and a bulldog hooking up all the time but how else do we get 'Muts'.

I have also seen some AFT geckos that have some very similar traits that have been bred into the Leo lines.

You might be right, but it just sounds like it should work. Maybe I will be successful and start a new breed!!

the dog analogy doesn't work very well because dogs are all the same species while the two geckos are not only seperate species, but different genuses.
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I am positive I am right. E-mail VMS herp, who has produced a blazing, and ask them how they created it. It IS a mix between an albino and a blizzard. Just because most albinos dont have red eyes, doesnt mean the blazing shouldnt. The blizzard and Albino genes just comliment eachother so that it has red eyes. You cant breed a Chinese leo to a Regular leo. The eggs would be infertile, if you could even get them to mate in the first place. E-mail prehistoric pets too if you like, they will tell you what I have already told you, that a blazing blizzard is a combination of an albino and a blizzard.
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I'm alittle lost here what does producing blazing blizzard have to do with chinese x reg. leos?

He thought a blazing blizzard was a cross between a chinese leo and a regular leo. Re read his original post...
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O I see, I concur with everyone else its a DH albino x blizzard bred to each other

Or perhaps even a mule?

BOTH are the result of crossing similar species... ligers are Lion and Tiger crossbreeds. Mules are horses crosed with donkeys. And both are sterile. Meaning that they are unable to breed.
So just because they can breed doesn't mean you'll get a new morph that'll breed true.

Also...Leos and Chinese leopard geckos are two totally different species. The requirements for them are almost as different as night and day, Raising the two together would most likely cause one of the other yo sicken or die.

Lions and tigers, and horses and donkeys, are in the same genera. The different leopard geckos aren't...

The term species refers to whether or not animals are able to interbreed, it has to do with the locations of certain genes in the DNA. Here is a definition of species from (I can't underline this) The Facts on File Dictionary of Biology by Robert Hine: "One populationof organisms, all the members of which are able to breed amongst themselves and produce fertile offspring" Schaums Easy Outlines Genetics goes on to say that the inability to breed is most likely an evoloutionary development that is meant to prevent the births of unhealthy or unadapted animals. This means you will almost definetly not be able to produce babies and if you do they will be sterile. Finally why would you want to take the chance of killing both animals when trying to set up a habitat suitable for both. Sorry I always write long posts