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just got this gecko a few days ago, he is 34 grams and male. he has a carrottail. he has a little spot on his kind of hypo body that is white and black. co-dom snow? is he a hypo, def. not super hypo, but he has less than 12 spots on his bod. the spots on his head are more orange than black or brown and i think those bands going horizontally are going to go away soon. any ideas? thanks. here he is.

Possibly High Yellow or Banded Hypo
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Normal - Male - Ninja
High Yellow - Female - Ninjete
Normal - Female - Lizzy
Norm/Het for High Yellow - Male - Ninja II

thanks for your reply. i was looking at what you kept and something caught my eye, one of your geckos was het for high yellow, i am pretty sure high yellow is line bred, not simply dominant recessive. you might want to check this out as it is your gecko. esp. if you plan on breeding them.

really? I thought High Yellow was a recessive... wierd.. Didnt know there we 2 types of Normals out there.
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Normal - Male - Ninja
High Yellow - Female - Ninjete
Normal - Female - Lizzy
Norm/Het for High Yellow - Male - Ninja II

if a gecko has high yellow, it shows. it does not carry the genes if it is not present on that animal. high yellow is line bred, meaning that if you have one gecko, a normal leo, and breed it to a really high yellow leo you will get a high yellow baby. it is a "compromise" of the two. this type of trait is referred to as line bred because line (meaning lineage) is how the morphs get more defined. if those two geckos have babies you might take the baby with the highest yellow and breed it back to the "nicer" parent, usually the dad. if you are doing this you also want to incubate the eggs at a lower temp. so you get more females. the male should always be the nicer of the breeding geckos as he will get always get his genes into the next generation, and the female, if you are keeping more than one of them, will not. i hope this helps.