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what do you all think? Tangerine or what? He had none of that color when I picked him out as a hatchling, just that abbarent pattern that you see

But it is not uncommon for geckos to look orange or get orangish orangish at birth or as juvvies and it lader fades and they are not tangerines. At least in that pic, the color does not look very orange to me now though on that side for the one on the left, so wait and see, but I wouldn't plan on anything if I were you.

See how orange the gecko on the top is? That gecko even has one tangerine parent, and the other is a nice reduced spotting yellow normal with some orange pigment on the body. And you know what? The adult is not what I would consider a tangerine, though she has some orangey-yellow on her.

gecko as a baby(top animal that looks very orange):

Gecko as an adult

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Sarah Stettler
StarGecko
Starling@stargecko.com

I have had the same thing happen. Leos can change SOOOOO much while they are growing up. I have had the same thing happen with some of my geckos. I had a hatchling that looked even more orange than Sarah's. I held it back even though I could have sold it for a pretty decent price the way it looked. It went completely normal by the time it was 6 months old.

I know of another person that bought a super hypo as a young adult. Within a few months it had spots all over it.

That is why I fight for people to wait until at least 6 months before calling their geckos this or that morph.
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Steven
Royal Gold Reptiles
Specializing in LV Patternless Albinos for '03 and '04.
Working towards Bell Patternless Albinos for '05.