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hi,

im posting because i'm not entirely sure what type of color morph my gecko is. i attached the image below ... just to summarize, he doesn't seem to have really any spots, and does have a thin faint band of orange along the botton of his tail. his coloring pattern seems more alligator like, except pink.

maybe it's that hes still a baby, but his colors seem different than pictures of the other morphs ive seen.

thanks in advance,
charles

paternless!!!!

that is a juvie patternless
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thanks everyone who replied. sweet. funny story - i actually got him at petco for the regular going rate of 24.99. i asked the guy who worked there (supposedly the "reptile expert" why he looked different from the other ones and he just kinda shrugged his shoulders and was quick to point out that "thats how he was when we got him." looks like i got a sweet deal!

thanks again for all your help,
charles

young leos should not be kept on sand as the risk for impaction is very high. He is a cutey though!
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Christina

1.3.1 leos
-0.1 tangerine het rainwater albino w/jungle background (Blinkers)
-0.2 jungles (Vahz & Skissor)
-0.0.1 albino (supposed Tremper)(Spitfire)
-1.0 tangerine rainwater albino (aoy unnamed...)
1.0 australian shepherd/cattle dog (Foster...although he was being fostered before I got him...that has nothing to do with his name...It's after the beer!...lol since he's australian and I'm a college student!)

Those markings will fade as he gets older, the markings only show up when they are babies
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sand and captive leos does not mix, especially one as young as yours.
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soad rocks

thats another nice looking gecko from petco.. thats a def. a patternless...there is nothing wrong with using the sand.. your setup looks ok.... however everyone is entitield to their own opinion.. sand worked for me..

geckogod2

even calci-sand is bad? stuff costs like 9 dollars a freaking bag...it better work.

--charles

Sand is a matter of extreme debate on this website...ultimately it comes down to your own decision. It's been shown that some of the areas leos live in in the wild have a hard dry clay base, covered with an extremely fine, dusty layer of sand. Now obviously impaction isn't a huge issue for them or they'd all be dead. However they don't (purposely) hunt on the sand, and it is much more fine than anything we have available commercially here. This means they don't normally injest sand, and if they do it probably moves through the GI tract more easily than what we put them on. Now obviously there is a risk of impaction keeping captive leos on sand...however the severity of this risk is still highly debatable, and many people have different opinions on it. Personally I think if you use it right its safe. By using it right I mean most of the tank not sand, feeding something like mealworms in a dish to prevent eating in the sand, providing a calcium dish (so they have somewhere to get calcium other than the sand...if they start licking at the sand, take them off it!), not putting babies on it, and checking stool for sand (if there's any in the stool get them off the sand!). That's personally what I think. To do that, you can use slate pieces as the main substrate and use sand to fill in the cracks (very natural!), or you can use tiles and fill in a space where tiles won't fit with sand (like my tank). Basically its up to you if you think its worth the risk...many don't, but they also believe that the risk is extremely high. I personally don't think the risk is high with my method, and so I do think its worth the risk to use it.
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Christina

1.3.1 leos
-0.1 tangerine het rainwater albino w/jungle background (Blinkers)

-0.2 jungles (Vahz & Skissor)

-0.0.1 albino (supposed Tremper)(Spitfire)

-1.0 tangerine rainwater albino (Bronx)