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This is Mork, my blizzard, playing with my friend Erika.

Mork is calm enough to take on walks, just sitting on your shoulder. And after that she's ready to pack away 40 mealies.

My absolute favorite gecko, personality wise.

ALWAYS CALM
Mork, calm blizzard

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Steven Beckerman
E2MacPets

I found a baby blizzard in a pet store today, and am very interested in buying it, I havn't found another one in cincinnati ohio yet. The only problem was when I stuck my hand in there she bit me 3 times. My other 2 leos I have are extremely calm and I feed them from my hand, and yea, they LOVE crawling on my shoulders. I appreciate your input. What do you think about this blizzard? Will she calm down or not?

most of my blizzards were absolute psychos when I got them, but once they had time to settle in to their new environment, they calmed down. You have to consider how much stress that little blizzard is under being in a pet store.

i recently bought a blizard and he is pretty calm but since i only had hm 4 a day i dont no

Mine will...ah...walk, very quickly, across your shoulders and down you back and hide behind you where you can't reach.

Where did you get her? I'm thinking most of the blizzards with 'tudes are from original P.Pets stock and the 1st generations after that?
Outcrossing might make them a little more handleable I think...It's just that since they're so new I'm guessing it's a trait still carrying over from the original group perhaps?

My hatchling is from a male from Prehistoric Pets and one of Garrick's het females. She's a bit calmer than some of the blizzards I've seen so far personally. Her sister is a perfect doll tho. I gave her to Quarla and he's able to pick her up and handle her no problem and hasn't been screamed at or bitten once yet. She's a week old now too...

Mine has been an aggressive eater with a calm temperment from day 1 (14 grams when I recieved her)... and it gets better:

I got her from VMS, temp sexed MALE (hence the masculine name). This is a HOT FEMALE!

She's also fertile, having laid 3 clutches this year (the first clutch just hatched two weeks ago)

Now I should say this is an unproven banana blizzard. It is very possible that it does indeed have patternless genes calming it down, but I do not believe that to be the case.
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Steven Beckerman
E2MacPets

What do you think about the baby blizzard calming down if I were to get her? She bit me 3 times today when I up my hand in her tank at the pet store.

It has anything to do with the outcrossing of the genes? More people are working with the strain now and crossing it with more of their leos, possibly adding the diversity to start calming the line perhaps?

I know that to get the group started for the demand that P.Pets had they did a lot of line breeding to the original male to get the strain started and that was pretty recent as far as morphs go.

Just an interesting though I had while this discussion was going on. Any imput from your end?

It would be interesting to study the inheritable behavioral traits, for sure. I don't think this was ever brought up in leopard geckos before blizzards, at least not to this extent.

We do have to remember that these are instinctive traits, not "personality" traits. A gecko doesn't bite because it dislikes you, after all. And I think people have to keep that in mind when discussing this issue.
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Steven Beckerman
E2MacPets