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I have a question for the breeders of leopard geckos... I currently have two corn snakes which I maintain and have successfully bred the past two years. I do not do this for profit, but for the pure enjoyment of doing so. I have been able to get rid of my hatchlings for a very low cost to a local (family owned) pet store that I really support because of the knowledgeable salespeople etc. I am confident that I am experienced enough in the keeping of reptiles that I can successfully keep leopard geckos, yet my main question for the breeders, is - are most (or all) of the current traits exhibited in leopards simple recessive traits, and if so what would be the most interesting combination that would provide the greatest variation in offspring? (I understand that a good combination of hets will do it, but because the leopard gecko lingo is different from corns, and I just want to be sure to maximize the experience for myself...)- I have a male, amelanistic corn (practically a sunglow for those who are familiar with corns)- he is almost pure orange and red, het for anerythrism, and a female ghost corn (anery hypo), het for amel, so i get normals, snows, anery's and amels, (and possibly hypo's - i do not yet know that the male is/ is not het for hypo.) -- I find just about every morph of leopards attractive, but want to stay in the $150 and under range for the actual animals. Thanks, sorry for the long post!

I personally wish more people were working on creating tangerine patternless geckos. I think there would be a good market for them, I know I'd be intertested, especially if it was het for Tremper Albino. I have only seen one tang patternless recently, I believe KelliH had it from someone else on breeding loan. Patternless is a recessive trait and tangerine is a selectively bred trait. You could also try to het some albino genes in there...a patternless tangerine albino would be cool. I'm hoping for one this next breeding season.

The other thing I would like to see is an all pink albino created by breeding hypermelanistic (lots of dark pigment) geckos with albinos.
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Sarah Stettler aka Starling
Sarah@stargecko.com
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Hey

This wont be under 150$ but i have been thinking about trying it taking a tremper patternless albino breeding it to a tremper giant this would produce het babys breed two of this type hets together and have a some patternless albinos some giants some hets but possibly some patternless giant albinos. I think it is possible but it would take some time
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-Aaron-
1.2 rainwater albinos
0.1 hypo tang
2.4 hi yellow
1.3 tremper albinos
0.1 blizzard
0.1 leusistic
1.1 Patternless het albinos
0.1 Reverse Stripe Tangerine Albino
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2 of mooses kids
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Challenging though, as you'll be dealing with three het traits...would be easier if you bred the Tremper patternless albino to a Tremper Albino Giant, then you just need to match the giant and patternless traits. Go for it, if you like Giants. I thought about getting into giants and decided I didn't really like them all that much...I mean, they'd just eat more food and need more space. But of course the great thing about morphs is there's something for everybody- different traits appeal to different people.
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Sarah Stettler aka Starling
Sarah@stargecko.com
StarGecko.Com COMING SOON! Star Quality Leopard Geckos
Specializing in Hypotangerine Tremper Albinos