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this is my tangarine leo she is gravid and already layed one clutch. How does she look?

She looks like a high-yellow, not a tangerine. Also she looks a little small to be breeding, but there is nothing for size comparison in the pic. Also, she doesnt look to fat or gravid right there so 1 clutch might be it for her.
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I was told she was a tangarine . She just layed her first clutch about 7 days ago so thats why she might not be that fat. Also i had to take the pic with low quality.

thank you

here is a pic of my leo can you take a look and tell me hat you think she is? I was told she was a tangarine when i bought her.

Tangerine is possible, but she looks more like the product of tang to hi-yellow breeding.
Just my 2 cents.

so if she was bred with a tangerine male what would the babies be? What is a hight yellow? also if it where bred with a carrot tail what would the babies come out as?

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She looks to have some tangerine highlights anterior to the tail so technically it would not be incorrect to call her a tangerine, a low-grade tangerine perhaps (though a lovely animal really), but not incorrect. But since tangerines have intensified so much many people have raised the standards of what they consider tangerine and would not call her that.

She also has reduced spotting.

She looks a little young/small to be bred, what is her age/weight?

Im not sure of her age or weight i did not breed her i bought her gravid. Someone else in the forum said she was a high yellow, you dont think she is? The dad was a more orange and brighter so does that meen the babies would be more tangerine then her?

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What would people call her then????

I said that. A couple of years ago your female would've been classified as a tangerine, but the standards have been raised so much, that it wouldnt be right to classify her as a tangerine. She looks to have a little orange, but not enough, so therefore she would be a high-yellow. hEre is a pic of a tangerine....

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well the dad was a brighter orange so what would the babies be considered. also what wouls come out if i bred her with a carrot tail?
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You would have to wait until the babies grew up to classify them or you could just call them high-yellow x (what ever you bred her to). If she was bred to a carrottail you would probably get some hypos with a little carrottail.
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im sorry for all the questons but when you say hypo do you meen hpo tangerine with a little carrot tail. again im sorry but im new at this!
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You might get some tangs, depending on how tang the carrottail is. When I said hypo I meant some leos that looked like your female but with a little carrottail.
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Thank you very much i appreciate your help! Im trying to learn about genetics do you know a good website that teaches it?

No, I dont know a site, but basically all you need to know is how recessive traits work, and what a het is. The recessive traits in leos are blizzard, albino, and patternless. All the other morphs that you see are line-bred.
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ok thanks
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*I* would not personally call her a tangerine. I would *personally* call her a nice hi-yellow with "tangerine hi-lights". What I am saying is that this is an issue amongst which well-meaning people can differ, as the standards are changing but some may still be using old standards...and even now there is no cut-and dried standard.

I am saying that if she was sold to you as "tangerine", it's not like the breeder was being untruthful, they may just be using a standard of definition most people have raised at this point...but reasonable people can and do differ on this. And I can see someone calling her a tangerine, in the low-grade tangerine sense. The value of a tangerine is based on the quality of the orange anyway, so in some ways what you call it is really not that important...it is how it looks that matters.

You have a pretty gecko, whatever you want to call it.

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