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Has anybody ever heard of a cross between a leopard gecko and an African Fat Tailed Gecko because I have a male Fat Tail in with a Female Leopard and she just recently laid eggs. I know that some younger geckos will lay 1 or 2 infertile clutches of eggs sometimes but as far as I know that is only in younger specimens that have never bread before and she is 4 years old and has laid several clutches. The eggs look fertile but the last time that she laid eggs while i with that male the eggs colapsed after a month or so and never hatched. Do you think that it is possible for the two species to cross breed?
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No they will not be fertile. While some different species are able to produce hybrids for example a liger (a tiger lion cross). leopards and fat tails will not be able to do this, while they are in the same family they arent extremely closely related and are in different genuses. (lions and tigers are in the same genus)

John

You never know... Candle them and see if you can see any vessel formation. There have been successful crosses of gophers and corn snakes and kings and corns which are all in different genera.
-Alice

Would you even want to? It brings up quite a few ethics questions... There was a post on fauna a few months regarding this issue.
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