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When Miranda was born, I was blown away at how black she was. She was the result of a reduced spotting hi-yellow/hypotangalbino cross

She was hatched on July 10

Young Miranda

Here she is on August 5th

Big areas of purple, small spots

The orange is taking over the purple

Small spots fading, yet still has a weird dark cast over the orange

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This is Miranda today. She is gravid and her colors are a little washed out, She still has this weird greenish look to her, and sort of a dark wash.

I don't know what is going on with her genetically, it's like she has genetic components of BOTH Melanistic (dark "wash" AND hypo (reduced spotting/size of spots). Weird.

Anyway, Monte had mentioned in his post on personailties how melanistics should have a dark "wash", made me think of this, and also thought it was just interesting to see how even a very dark baby can end up looking very different when it grows up.

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what a difference from baby to adult! i think it would be cool to have a gecko that would be black as an adult...

So the orange never completely took over the lavender.... hmmm, I wonder if you selective breed them to have more lavendar. Its a strange concept, almost all babies are fifty percent yellow, fifty percent lavendar/black, yet no hypo lavendars exist(well at east I havent seen one). Anyways, Beautiful gecko!!!
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I don't know WHAT she is, I just think she's kind of a weird looking combination of dark cast-lavender-tangy-reduced spotting but I haven't been able to define it as anything. Others have said she is a lavender, but I am not at convinced that there even is such a thing as a true lavender. With this girl, she is under a year still though she is big and grew fast, we will see if she still has lavender a year from now- she did have much more than usual when younger. I have yet to see a "lavender" that still has lavender at 2 or three years of age. Of course it would be incredubly cool to produce lavender albinos, if that is possible, but I think it's the dark black fading out that creates the lavender shade, so not sure that it is possible to get true lavender shades in albinos, the "lavender" part looks more pink than blue usually.

yeah you could tell in patternless albinos.
regular patternless have lavendar tails, but when albinism takes its course, the tail ends up looking pink. So the lavendar in patternless is just a mixture of melanin and red. I wonder if this is true for normal morphs though. Whatever happened to trempers infamous blue leopard geckos???
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Do you mean patternless albinos or patternless? Because patternless albinos don't have melanin either. Maybe patternless is the key to making an all "blue" (lavender) gecko. If a melanistic or lavender cast snow gecko was bred with a patternless would you get a bluish gecko? I haven't seen any albinos with true lavender.

As for Tremper's blue geckos, we'll see. It seems like it might be possible though, if you had a melanistic snow patternless. Maybe.

I think it would be very hard to get blue. That is the inverted color of yellow which is a leo's natural color. If we havent got a true lavendar or a true green gecko yet, then we are generations behind blue leo's. I dont think you can go straight to blue, I think you would have to go step by step on the color wheel. Before I was stating that patternless (not albino) have lavendar tails, but its proven that the lavendar tails they have do not have any blue in them because patternless albinos have pink not purple tails. I dunno, only time can tell.
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should be interesting though.
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