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Hey,

I was just wondering about the genetics of carrots tails. Do you get a carrot tail line by selecting leo's with orange on their tails and breeding them and then continuing to do that until you have a line of straight carrot tails? Or is it done differently than that?

Also, one more question, when you have a leo that has reduced black spotting, is that called Hypo?

Is the picture of this Leo a Hypo?

Sorry, i get confused with all the termonology. Lol

TIA for your help!!

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True carrot tails come from the Hines line of hypos. There will be no spots within the orange on the tail. To get a greater percentage of carrot one would selectively breed geckos with greater and greater amounts of carrot.

Today things are getting somewhat confused as some breeders market any gecko with orange on the tail as a carrot tail. For example, although your leo has a lot of orange on its tail, it is not a true carrot tail.

I think that the general rule of thumb for hypos is that in order to qualify as a hypo it has to have less than 10 body spots.

Hope this helps a bit!
Alice

For basic morph terminology, see:
http://www.freewebs.com/stinauiuc/morphdescriptions.htm

I would not call that a hypo, because by definition a hypo is less than 10 spots on the main body of the gecko.

And Carrot-tail is linebred, so yes the only way to get it is to keep breeding carrot-tails to carrot-tails until it eventually fills out.
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Brian Skibinski
Brian@MilwaukeeReptiles.com
www.MilwaukeeReptiles.com
Leopard Gecko Care Sheet

wow! Thanks for the info, that clears it all up for me
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1.0 green iguana-Deitrich
1.1 Common Boa-Un-Named, Ursula
1.0 Ball Python-Anabell (go figure!)
1.0 Red Tegu-Uteg
1.0 Albino Cal King-Pig
0.1 Mexican Black King-Morticia
1.1 Bearded Dragons-Unnamed, Hanabil
1.0 Albino San Diego Gopher-Unnamed
0.1 Hermans tort-Esio
1.1 JCP-Milton, Medusa
1.1 Reverse Okeetee Corn-Unnamed
0.1 Snow Corn-Unnamed
1.0 Hypo Okeetee Corn-Unnamed
0.1 Motley Okeetee-Unnamed
1.0 Western Hoggie-Wyrm
0.0.1 Rose Hair Taruntla-Unnamed
2.0 Leopard Geckos-Reptar, Pogo
4.1 cats-Tucker,Poe,Abhib,Emerald, Felicity
0.1 Bullmastiff-Asha

one more question. Does the ten body spots include spots on the head?
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1.0 green iguana-Deitrich
1.1 Common Boa-Un-Named, Ursula
1.0 Ball Python-Anabell (go figure!)
1.0 Red Tegu-Uteg
1.0 Albino Cal King-Pig
0.1 Mexican Black King-Morticia
1.1 Bearded Dragons-Unnamed, Hanabil
1.0 Albino San Diego Gopher-Unnamed
0.1 Hermans tort-Esio
1.1 JCP-Milton, Medusa
1.1 Reverse Okeetee Corn-Unnamed
0.1 Snow Corn-Unnamed
1.0 Hypo Okeetee Corn-Unnamed
0.1 Motley Okeetee-Unnamed
1.0 Western Hoggie-Wyrm
0.0.1 Rose Hair Taruntla-Unnamed
2.0 Leopard Geckos-Reptar, Pogo
4.1 cats-Tucker,Poe,Abhib,Emerald, Felicity
0.1 Bullmastiff-Asha

>>one more question. Does the ten body spots include spots on the head?
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No. I usually go from the neck to the base of the tail, no spots on the head would classify it as a baldy, while reduced spots on the head are not really any specific morph.
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Brian Skibinski
Brian@MilwaukeeReptiles.com
www.MilwaukeeReptiles.com
Leopard Gecko Care Sheet