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Obviously I have heard of carrot tails, but every once in a while I hear mention of a carrot HEAD. I have never actually seen a picture of this though, so if anybody could explain it to me and/or show me pictures, that would be great.

Does a carrot head need to be a baldy as well? Where is the orange supposed to be - at the base of the neck, over the entire head, etc? Is there a "shade" of orange that is required?

I'm curious because Tamale is a baldy and his/her head is a more orange-color than the yellow on the body (see my post below for pictures).
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-Kristin

0.1.2 Leopard Geckos
(Monet, Kumquat, and Tamale)

Carrot heads are leos with that deep carrot tail orange on their heads. Its a polygenetic (linebred) trait bred by Ron Tremper, and is one of the ingredients in the APTOR/RAPTOR morphs. Its fairly new so its not as widespread as other traits but I know of a few people who are working on outbreeding it into other lines (Brightalbino.com has produced the first bell albino carrotheads)

I own one, heres a pic from the breeder when she was 18 grams (shes now 60 grams...)

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Leopard Geckos 1.7.6
1.0 Blazing blizzard
0.1 Tremper albino
0.1 Tremper 66% het bliz
0.3 Normal 66% het blazing bliz
0.1 Giant het Tremper
0.1 Carrothead Tangerine Giant Tremper ?% het RAPTOR
0.0.3 Blizzard
0.0.3 Normal
Bull Frog 1.0

this site has some pics of adult carrotheads:
http://www.capitalcitygeckos.com/leopardgecko.html
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Leopard Geckos 1.7.6
1.0 Blazing blizzard
0.1 Tremper albino
0.1 Tremper 66% het bliz
0.3 Normal 66% het blazing bliz
0.1 Giant het Tremper
0.1 Carrothead Tangerine Giant Tremper ?% het RAPTOR
0.0.3 Blizzard
0.0.3 Normal
Bull Frog 1.0

Heres one of my new male from CCG

Isn't the tail awefully thin for the gecko to be that large?

No not for a Jungle Giant, that's only a few months old H.D June 6th

heres a newer pic of mine, when she was about 55 grams. Now shes at 60 (after just 5 months!!!)

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Leopard Geckos 1.7.6
1.0 Blazing blizzard
0.1 Tremper albino
0.1 Tremper 66% het bliz
0.3 Normal 66% het blazing bliz
0.1 Giant het Tremper
0.1 Carrothead Tangerine Giant Tremper ?% het RAPTOR
0.0.3 Blizzard
0.0.3 Normal
Bull Frog 1.0