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Does anyone know where i can get some nice moonglows i know they exist and i saw some on Pangea Reptiles but he doesn't have any for sale any time soon and was just wondering where i could get some they are really cool.

Thanks Derek

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as far as i know pangea ( not acreptiles.com) is the only place even calling anything a moonglow. according to anthony's previous posts on them he doesn't find them all that attractive. it is a very pale ( not white) crested gecko with very little coloration. i've never seen any for sale and to tell you the truth would probably rather buy something else for the kind of money pangea probably would want for theirs.

Robbie Hamper, author of "The Crested Gecko in Captivity" was the first one to start using the name Moonglow.

There's a photo in her book with almost all yellow removed, which in turn shows no tan pigment on the gecko. A dead giveaway is that the ficus leaves in the photo have a very dark blue/green color to them. Anyway, removing the yellow in that photo made for a bluish white look on the gecko..which after seeing her "Moonglows" in person, is not accurate at all. In person, the geckos are just a very light colored, slightly tan gecko. I guess the closest thing I can think of to describe their color is light colored khaki pants. While I'm sure some of the "moonglows" have very little tan pigment, they still have some and as such, I don't think the photos in the book accurately depict the animals that are floating around and being called moonglows.

I saw them sitting on her table (they were even labeled "Moonglow" at the Chicago NARBC show last year...not selling even though they were priced around $75-100 each for sexed animals. At that same show, I had many people tell me how dissapointed they were about how the "moonglows" looked in person vs. how they appear in the book.

After telling you all how unimpressed I was with them, I should explain my stance. They do have some potential to live up to the hype, but it's going to be years before breeders can selectively breed them to have little to no yellow pigment and actually look like the one in the book.

-Anthony
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Anthony Caponetto
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Hey Anthony, did you see that pix in Allen's forum - the really pale whitish one? I thought that was a pretty unique animal. How does that one compare to the ones you saw labeled as "moonglows"?
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Monte Meyer
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Yeah I saw white one with the black spots. The picture looks acurate. It does look white! Hmmmmmmm? I will take one of those.It put a whole new meaning to "dalmation" 101?