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I'm about to add another female luetistic (Sp) to my 1.1 group and wanted to ask if there is anything I should do regarding introduction. Should I just put her in or what?

I'd also heard that there is no such thing as a Luetistic leopard gecko.. could someone confirm/explain that for me please.

Thanks for any information.

Jil.

P.S.. Also regarding quarantine I know the person I am getting the gecko from and I know she has been in good health laying eggs for the past 9 months.

1st off, how big is the enclousure? if its 20l or bigger its fine. make sure all the geckos get along, keeping a close eye on them for a while. in my experience, any aggression usually shows emmediatly, but you never know. there is no true leusistic yet. what you have is a patternless, im assuming. it also could be a blizzard, but patterless are more common and more commonly mistaked as leusistic. leusistic animals are pure white with blue eyes. i don't know the exact mutation, like albino is without melan, and axanthic is with out yellow. when the first patternlesses were hatched, i think people mistook them as leusistic, thinking the leopard gecko leusistic was just more drab and such then all the others. it's really hard to explain, and even understand true leusistics. the best examples of leusistics are in snakes such as ball pythons and texas rat snakes, and the leusistic nile monitor is also a good one. leusistics rarely live long after hatching in most species. i think i covered everything, i'll go back to the message and check.
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your head will collapse, but there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself, "where is my mind"

They will be in a 67 gallon tank Long.

I will be adding a few more hides so that they all have room to get away from one another and also increasing the size of the humid hide/laybox. Below is a pic of the layout.

Jil.

outta be perfect.
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your head will collapse, but there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself, "where is my mind"

it's a tough call. i would do it, atleast for a few weeks, but if your positive it is in perfect health, and you don't have an empty enclosure around, i would think it's ok if you skip it.
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your head will collapse, but there's nothing in it, and you'll ask yourself, "where is my mind"

It doesn't matter if you think she is in good health, it is the problems you can't see. Like parasites, and hidden sicknesses that have long incubation periods. Putting her in now may put your other leos at risk. At least a month long quarantine period is necessary for reducing the risks of exposing your leos to new diseases.

Cleo
1:1 leos (6 eggs cooking)

Once you buy a new leo, how long do you believe is the best amount of time to quaratine?

>>Once you buy a new leo, how long do you believe is the best amount of time to quaratine?
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