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I have a new leo. I know, i know i said i would only have one, but this one is INCREDIBLE. I have never seen any thing like her before. I dont have a pic, yet but maybe from my description yous guys can help?
Ok, so picture a normally patterned baby leo. dark head, white collar, dark neck, 3 dark bands with yellow inbetween, then the normmal tail bands....ok, now picture this leo with all that but instead of black, all of the bands are a uniform mauve, with no black. The yellow is pale, and above the eyes is a blue shade. I was thinking albino, but i have seen TONS of albinos through shows and at the petstore i used to work at. They were pink and yellow. no purple. and the baby has albino eyes. Well, they are kind of silvery.
i have never seen anything like this before. From my description does anyone have any idead? She shed the other day and there is still no black, her yellow just got a bit brighter. It is so weird./......please give me ideas and i will get a pic asap. thanks.
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1.0 ball python- Azazel
1.0 columbian boa- Brooklyn
1.0 JCP-Milton
1.0 borneo blood-Hiss
1.0 peach phase thayeri-Sancho
0.1 creamsicle corn- Pandora
1.1 hognose- Pricilla and Odd
0.1 russian tortoise- Manja
0.1.1 leos- Boji and ???
0.1 beardie- Indie
1.0 BTS- Griffon
0.1 Iggy- Sunny
0.1 pacific parrolet- Mishka
1.1 cats- Cairo and Oberon
2.4 ratties- Willard, Rizzo, Bree, Blitzkreig, Raisin, and the Runt

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1.1 brazilian rainbow baos-sunshine&chaos
1.1.1 leopard geckos-killer, narvana, sallean,
1.1 blizzerd lizzard-grim&amber
.1 bell leopard gecko-ecstacy
.1 tremper leopard gecko-euphoria
.2. amazon tree boas-sweetness&carnage
0.1.0 kenyan sand boa-stimpy R.I.P.
0.1.0 bearded dragon-blaze
1.0.0 uromastyx-chubby
2.0 brothers
0.2 sisters
3 cats-fat max, spiderman, &toby
1 miniture mutt-brutis

"dont be afraid to die, only be afraid to not live"

"dont become classified. if you are nothing, then you can be anything."

I would love to see a picture of this little one! By what you are describing, it does sound like it could be and albino that was incubated at a low temprature. There really isn't a true morph called a "chocolate albino"... it is just a term that some breeders are using to sell their darker colored babies. Many times, these albinos grow up to be quite lovely... like you said, a kind of mauve color with yellow!
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Marcia McGuiness
Golden Gate Geckos
www.goldengategeckos.com

Sounds like a lavender to me. I would like to see a pic when you can.
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Sleep, what is that???????
Just my thoughts and opinions based on my experiences.
Jeremy Letkey
jletkey@yahoo.com

I would guess a dark albino, too.
Or posably a hypo, sometimes there bands are very light.
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Sarah H

n/p
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Christina

Leopard Gecko Morph Descriptions

2.3 leos
-0.1 tangerine het rainwater albino w/jungle background (Blinkers)
-0.2 jungles (Vahz & Skissor)
-1.0 tremper albino (Spitfire)
-1.0 tangerine rainwater albino (Bronx)

-ignorance is not to be punished when one is trying to gain knowledge...what scares me is the vast number of people who, when given the information to gain knowledge, choose to ignore it.

This sounds normal to me. Mine looked kind of like that, not so purple though. I've heard of it being a purplish color, and i've seen some babies like that, i thought it was normal. There is no blue shading above the eyes, this is simply because you can see it's eyeball through the skin because it is so thin there. To me it sounds like somewhere inbetween normal and dark albino.. not sure though, i'm no expert
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0.0.3 Leopard Geckos
0.1.0 Miniature long-haired dachsund

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Rick-Geckoland USA

I did a bit of research on the chocolate albinos. It looks like that is what she is. Very pretty baby. Thanks for the replies, guys i really appreciate it and it helped me a bunch!
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"i wasn't born with enough middle fingers"

1.0 ball python- Azazel
1.0 columbian boa- Brooklyn
1.0 JCP-Milton
1.0 borneo blood-Hiss
1.0 peach phase thayeri-Sancho
0.1 creamsicle corn- Pandora
1.1 hognose- Pricilla and Odd
0.1 russian tortoise- Manja
0.1.1 leos- Boji and ???
0.1 beardie- Indie
1.0 BTS- Griffon
0.1 Iggy- Sunny
0.1 pacific parrolet- Mishka
1.1 cats- Cairo and Oberon
2.4 ratties- Willard, Rizzo, Bree, Blitzkreig, Raisin, and the Runt

It kinda sounds like patternless/leusistic to me.