Reptile & Amphibian Forums

Here's an animal I picked up at the NARBC in Tinley park.. This along with the male super mack snow are the first leopard geckos I've ever bought. She was sold to me as a simple recessive Ghost.. I know someone already answered in another thread but this picture is a little more clear. After tons of reading for the past few days, she just looks like some sort of Hypo as mentioned before.. Kinda unexpected/shady that someone would misrepresent an animal at a show like that one was.. Ah well, you live and you learn.

thats definitely not a ghost....
it looks like a SHT to me
-----
4.7.0 Leopard Geckos
0.1.0 AFT
0.2.0 Homonota Darwinii (Talus & Gracilis)
0.0.1 Hemidactylus Turcicus
0.0.1 Tarentola Mauritanica (Pickles)
0.1.0 Cham Caliptratus (Clotilde)
1.0.0 Golden Retriever (Cafu)
1.0.0 Black cat (Felipe)
0.0.1 Acanthoscurria Musculosa
0.0.3 Eupalestrus Campestratus
0.0.1 Gramostola Rosea

Okay,

Apparently there IS such a "thing" as a ghost, and you very well may have one. A ghost is not exactly what was described to you (a simple recessive).

Luxurious Leopards shows a hypomelanistic, snow codom as a "ghost" - it's simply a hypomelanistic gecko (the line-bred part) that also is snow (the heterozygous state of the super snow), i.e., a washed out (yellow is dilute in snows) hypo. I hope they don't mind me showing their picture here.

If that's the case, you got a nice deal on it, and breeding it to your super snow male will yield offspring each with a 50% chance of being snow, 50% chance of being super snow. This shows one reason why loose makeshift trade names can be a real pain.

I believe the jury is still out on the snow genes being codom or what. Do you have a link to where you got the info it was def codom? And which snow line?
-----

1.0 Hypo stripe, Het RW from JL (BJ)
1.0 HypoTang from Crested (Apricot)
1.0 Tremper Albino from Petsmart (Cloud)
0.1 Hi-Yellow Leopard gecko from Petco (Beatrice)
0.1 Stripe female (rehabilitated rescue)(Pepper)
0.1 Jungle het RW hatched by me! (Jungle Bunny)
0.1 SHCT Leopard Gecko from Petco (Brite)
0.1 Tangy Mutt Leopard Gecko from Petco (Rainbow)
0.1 RW Stripe hatched by me! (unnamed yet)
0.1 Leucistic rescue (Lucy?)
0.1 Tremper stripe from JMG (unnamed yet)
0.1 SHCT hatched by me! (Blinky)
0.0.1 SHCTB hatched by me! (Sunny II)
0.1 Ball Pythons
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
Hatched: ~50 leos

We're talking about Mack snow/super snow (not the line-bred snow E.m.fasciolatus-looking things).

It's seems to be a definite codominant based on the breeding outcomes that have been circulated. Breed a homozygous gecko to a regular gecko, get a visible heterozygote (the Mack snow) that's different from the homozygous state (the super snow).

Breed two homozygous animals (super snows) together and get all super snow offspring. If you want the trait discussed in print, Tremper's big book does just that.