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hello , i have a large male leaf tail gecko , hes over 10 inches in length , n was sold to me as a fimbriatus. i was wonderinf if that is truly what he is , or is he a henkeli. thanx

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John woodward
JW REPTILES

Fimbriatus have rings/striations in the eye, henkeli do not. If the photo included was the photo of the gecko in question, it is henkeli.
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2.3 U. Phantasticus

yea, i would say he even looks a lot like eve's barkley. that pic really does look like henkeli, but cant tell for sure without a clearer pic of the eye. check out www.wildeyereptiles.com, which is owned by two of our other frequents around here, jason and leah. they've got some real nice pics that will give you a clear idea as to what the striations look like in the eyes of fimbriatus.

i had a female fimbriatus all lined up , thinking that my animal was a fimbriatus , was gonna put the money down for her today , but now i find out my animal is a henkeli , o well , so now the search is for a henkeli , if any of yall can point my in the right direction , id greatly appreciate it. thanx
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John woodward
JW REPTILES

Check out LLLReptile.com... they seem to have gotten some henkeli in the last shipment as a mistake...and they do sell single females. But I'd ask them to take a clear photo of the eye first before sending - or give you a money back guarantee that the animal is correctly identified.
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Leopard geckos, pictus geckos, crested geckos, african fat-tails, Paroedura bastardi bastardi, a velvet gecko, Henkel's Leaf Tails, Bibron's geckos, Corn snakes, Ball Pythons, Honduran milks, a single Taiwan Beauty, Leucistic Texas Rats, Solomon Island Tree Boas, a pair of Mali Uromastyx, an Amazon tree boa, baby Hatian tree boas, a single female circleback Colombian red-tail...

fimbriatus and henkeli are easily identified by several other characters other than the eye... so in other words, although in most cases its a dead give away, I wouldn't dwell on the eye as the sole determining factor... the trained eye can also tell the difference by the length of the snout in relation to the overall size of the head, the size of the hands and the pattern/coloration... the latter way being a little more tricky... the specimen in the photo is undoubtedly a henkeli…
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Ben