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I am just curious because they look very similar, can somebody please give me a description of the differences? (I am going to get 1 of each in a few days (both females))

Thanks in advance!
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a high yellow, is basically a normal with brighter yellows and reduces spotting. a hypo tangerine should be a orange leo with VERY reduces spoting, 1-10 body spots.
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Do they have to by orange? I have seen them for sale on websites (like prehistoric pets) and they are fairly normal colored.... would this be a hypo tang? (I am getting it for free so I don't really care)

Hypo Tangerine?

Also, this would be a High Yellow wouldn't it?

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yes, a tangerine should be orange. although there are a lot of people who label not tangerine geckos as tangerines, so they can make more money. to me, both of your geckos look like nice high yellows.
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Yea, that's what I thought. But the older one does seem to have some richer color than normal leos.... could that classify it as a tang? (I'm not interested in breeding or anything, just curious)
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the richer color is what makes it a high yellow. some people even call them "goldens". what ever color they are, the super hypos of the very bright yellow, not tangerine, are one of my favorite morphs.
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Yep, I am going to make her really fat, and maybe someday breed her to my normal male to produce produce normals or maybe some high-yellows. I can't wait to see how that baby turns out too!
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I always considered a high yellow a pretty much normal with brighter yellow and no spots on the back legs. A hypo would be a leo with less than 10 spots on the body (head and tail not counted) To actually call anything a tang it should have some rich orange trim or banding. I could see where the adult of the picture could be looked at as a semi-hypo. The stripe that the spots form is definately something cool. I don't really see any mentionable tang there but sometimes a camera does not pic it up good sometimes it makes it seem brighter than normal. The juvinille is too small to tell yet he could be a high yellow, alot of times when they are young like that you can tell because ones that won't be high yellow will have brown patches on top of the upper legs. A leo that young will usually really do some major changeing in color and spotting. Hypos will actually get spots when they are young and then they fade away.
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Hmm, because when I go to a site like: prehistoricpets.com they show hypo tangs and they look like my girl... so I'm confused...
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yea, the market has really got relaxed over the last few years. Money talks. I always went by the Hypo= less than 10 spots on body (preferably only a couple), super hypo= no spots on body, super hypo "baldy"= no spots on body no spots on head. Not all hypos will have a bright or rich yellow. Some super hypos will sometimes have an almost green/yellow where the bands would have been.
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Even if your on the right track you will get run over if you just sit there
22 leos,1.1 redtail boas,1.1 rainbow boas,1.1 cornsnakes, 1.0 tokay gecko,1.0 veiled cham, 5 dogs and a cat. Oh, can't forget Tater my parrolet.

Here's on of my females.....se is a very high yellow(reduced spotting maybe?)

He has about 12 spots so he may just be a reduced pattern tangerine.

Too many people label yellow leos as "tangerines". My standards i guess are different. No mistakes about it. The pic shows it all.

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Neither of those geckos are yellow look at any pantone color chart. What you have there are different grades of tangerines (the one on the left is GORGEOUS BTW). To call c-grade tangs yellow out of a desire to show the standard you hold for tangs is very tang-centric. That is, there is a color that is a true high yellow in geckos that is desirable in it's own right, to call paler tangs yellow is simply not accurate, and is an injustice to the high yellow morph.

There are many people now who are calling any reduced spotting gecko hi yellow, even if it is really a pale orange or pale yellow, this is not accurate...high yellow is a bright true yellow, not a pale orange, and it is a desirable morph to preserve in its own right.

that would not be inaccurate, if you don't like calling paler tangs tangs.

the gecko is yellow, not orange, so it shouldnt be called a tang. tangerine's IMO should be somewhat orange, and im sure that was the original idea behind the morph. personally, i like the bright yellow of the one on the right better then the tangerine on the left. though both are awesome.
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We must have differently constructed eyes then because that gecko is not yellow to mine. To me a yellow gecko is lemon yellow, that looks more like golden/peachy. It's fine not to call it tang but I don't think it should be called yellow either, as I said golden would be accurate.

i like golden. i would have trouble calling it tang, but golden is nice. but golden should be reserved for hypos only, cos' the spots kinda "dirty" up the yellow.
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Well, I think most leos colors would look dull next to that tang. It's colors are so orange that they kind of overshadow the other leos colors. If the "yellow" one was taken in a pic by itself, it might look more orange??
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