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has anibody ever heard of albino banded geckos? on recent inspection of one of my very light colored females I saw that she had golden eyes, like tremper albino leopard geckos, and is also very light colored. Are albino bandeds rare? I plan to hibernate her next week in order to try and breed her. Take a look and tell me what you think

here she is in normal light

here she is under a flashlight, her color seems to look better under it

here she is in comparison with a normal banded with teh same pattern

Tell me if you think she is albino, as I am getting mixed opinions from people
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1.1 mali uromastyx (bruno and mali)
1.1.2 Leopard geckos (Bart and Sheek and unnamed )
0.1 blizzard corn snakes (pearl)
2.3.1 coleonyx variegatus (banded geckos)(unnamed)
0.0.2 mediterranean house geckos (unnamed)
1.1 Golden retreivers (kardy and bailey)

hi.
i would say that she is an albino!
me and a couple of friends agree!
simmo.

I would say a hypo NOT a albino.
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I moved to Missouri from AZ last year..I know....big mistake!!
Anywho, I brought a few bandeds with me to keep as breeders / pets. I have a male EXACTLY like the one you posted. I've bred him to a fem. that looked like him, unfortunately only one of the eggs hatched, and that baby died when a pet sitter smashed him under a water dish!! I'll be trying again soon, as I just started waking them up this weekend.

What part of the states are you in? AZ ?

Don

yep, I'm in AZ(phoenix) and have a total of 6 coleonyx variegatus brevis. I am going to cool mine down this week also, do you have any tips on ways of doing this? this will be my first time trying to breed (have had 1 successfull breeding before on accident.)

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1.1 mali uromastyx (bruno and mali)
1.1.2 Leopard geckos (Bart and Sheek and unnamed )
0.1 blizzard corn snakes (pearl)
2.3.1 coleonyx variegatus (banded geckos)(unnamed)
0.0.2 mediterranean house geckos (unnamed)
1.1 Golden retreivers (kardy and bailey)

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Edited on December 31, 2003 at 22:26:17 by phwyvern.

I know that a lot of perfectionists immitate specific photo periods, and descending temps, but I'm not dealing with a Cribo or anything either.
In the fall I feed my bandeds a more fattening diet. (wax worms and things) and I keep dusting their food with calcium/vitamin powder a few times per week.
When winter is bearing down on me, I shorten their day a little with the use of an auto timer on their lamp. I begin cooling them after a few weeks of NO food, but leave water in with them. After two weeks NO food, the light goes of and they go out in my garage in a cardboard box. I also place a damp sponge in the tank with them to keep dehydration at bay. After about 8-12 weeks I'll bring them into my basement (unfinished, so it's still cool). After a week or so in there I bring them back into my house and begin giving them "daylight" again, and bringing the temps back up.
once they are all warm and toasty, and fattened back up, nature takes it's course and I get a pair of eggs per female about every 30-45 days.
I'm CERTAINLY no expert, but my original pair (still with me) still reproduce every year. I've produced more babies than I could get rid of, so it's definately NOT rocket science!
I lived in Phoenix for 13 years and I just figured I'd "gestimate" what nature would have done to them, and it works for me.
I KNOW that you can find good care sheets on the web, so perhaps you should try and find one. I will see if I can't locate one for you in the meantime.

Email me @
stokguruy2k@hotmail.com

Don

dang, I had no clue it was such a big process, I was just gonna fatten them up, then take the heat off of them, but leave water in. then wake them up after a week or two. Thanks for the help, and if a link is in this post, DONT CLICK ON IT!

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1.1 mali uromastyx (bruno and mali)
1.1.2 Leopard geckos (Bart and Sheek and unnamed )
0.1 blizzard corn snakes (pearl)
2.3.1 coleonyx variegatus (banded geckos)(unnamed)
0.0.2 mediterranean house geckos (unnamed)
1.1 Golden retreivers (kardy and bailey)

Edited on December 31, 2003 at 22:25:58 by phginger.

>>yep, I'm in AZ(phoenix) and have a total of 6 coleonyx variegatus brevis.

Are they variegatus, brevis, or a hybrid of the two?

I have C. v. variegatus and C. v. abbotti.
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Chris McMartin
www.mcmartinville.com
I'm Not a Herpetologist, but I Play One on the Internet

They are still C. v. variegatus.
I could find 20 of them in a few hrs in AZ, and about 25% of them would be this lighter color. They still have the normal colored eyes, but the skin is a little lighter. I have noticed that some of the lighter animals that I have kept, darken up after a few mos or years. In my opinion it's just a slight color variation. Not really enough to even consider it to be hypo. Once again, just my opinion.

D

Hey Chris...I think my brother may have been in the airforce with you!

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stokguruy2k@hotmail.com