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Well i promised Anthony I would post a picture of this marble candidate, so Anthony this one is for you. Let me know whether you think it qualifies.

David

Another picture taken in truecolor. This male shifts from almost solid green/white on his entire body to that color on the dorsum and darker sides.

There's a light pinning on this male, as well as more obvious tigering.

This guy seems to be chevron-ed and has an interesting fade to his hairdo.

Filling in the spectrum gaps

Orange tiger with a greenish back. Check out the red cilia on her and the pinned male (theyre mates).

Solid Red Male

Check out the lovebirds

Interesting to see the resmblance(I know i spelled that wrong) dalmation spotting almost in the same exact place, colors look the same creamish-sicle-ish (not creamsicle I know spare me the lecture)...

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2.3.2 crested geckos (Speckles, Sandy, Squirt, Sunshine, Soldier and two un-named babies)
0.0.1 Striped Cal. Kingsnake (Snuggles)
1.1.0 Green Iguanas (Sisco,Speedy)
0.1.0 Rose Hair Tanrantula (Sweets)
RIP Star and Sal

I dunno...Mine came from a pet store i used to work at in Richmond, VA. Yours looks more red to me with orange dorsal stripe, where mine is more pink with a yellow dorsum. Yours also seems to have more spotting. Both color expressions of this female have bred true it seems, her first offspring has almost the same coloring/patterning and the dalmation spotting in almost the same places. SO...who knows

25% of her babies have the same color and spotting in the same spot...75% have the same spots in almost exactly the same spot but with the father's pattern...interesting
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2.3.2 crested geckos (Speckles, Sandy, Squirt, Sunshine, Soldier and two un-named babies)
0.0.1 Striped Cal. Kingsnake (Snuggles)
1.1.0 Green Iguanas (Sisco,Speedy)
0.1.0 Rose Hair Tanrantula (Sweets)
RIP Star and Sal

i definately wouldn't refer to it as a moonglow. but it is very unique and i don't think i've ever seen one with a contrast/color quite like it.

Yours looks similar in some aspects, but I think you have a gecko exhibiting both the tiger and fire traits...which are two independent traits. What makes yours look somewhat similar is that the fire pattern is broken up, which isn't all that uncommon. If you look closely, hardly any of the lighter colored side pattern runs through the back...whereas with my marbles, the dark & light patterns are interlaced multiple times across the dorsum. I really don't have time to explain all the differences I see, but I don't think (genetically speaking) that it's the same trait that mine are showing. If you bred that gecko to a few females, I think you would produce some plain tigers, which is something that the marble hasn't done...at least not yet. There's only one way to find out, though. Just breed it and see what you get.

Out of probably 12-14 babies produced by my marble female, all I've gotten is fires, marbles (which start off looking like a fire and then gain the orange on their sides to complete the marbled look) and one patternless (probably due to a recessive gene)...all had dalmatian spots. So far, I have yet to see anything on any of the babies that would make me think that the tiger trait is involved.

Looking at what all exists today, yes, I think your gecko looks reasonably similar, but with the marbles, I think there could be potential beyond anything that anyone has ever seen...possibly a "super marble" or something of the like.

I got one baby from my marble this year that will make people say "hmmmmmm...maybe he's not crazy." I'll try to get some photos of that one in the next day or two.

>>Well i promised Anthony I would post a picture of this marble candidate, so Anthony this one is for you. Let me know whether you think it qualifies.
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>>David
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Anthony Caponetto
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