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Does anyone know what you can breed rainwater geckos to? I have leopard geckos, tangerines, blizzards. Thanks

Dont ya' hate it when you post a question on a forum and NO ONE bothers to even answer it? As if you had to be part of some secret club in order to have your questions answered, or ask only seemingly "intelligent" questions("Intelligence being up to the person judging the question, not you?"

Thank God that isnt going to happen here.
Been there, done that.......

RAINWATER REPTILES, a business which is now closed, bred a wide variety of snakes and lizards. They also bred Leopard Geckos, mainly in a blizzard form. Regardless of the color morph, if it is the Rainwater Blizzard Leopard Gecko that you are talking about, it is still a LEOPARD GECKO and can be bred to other Leopard Geckos, regardless of the color morph.
I CANNOT tell you what type of offspring will come of a Tangerine to Rainwater Blizz breeding...nor can I tell you if Leopard Geckos can be bred with Fattail Geckos.

But I can tell you that leopard geckos are leopard geckos and they all can be bred to each other,

Hope this helped and didnt cause more confusion.

God Bless,

Fred Albury

Thanks so much for taking the time to respond. It really helped. Your observations on the forum were enlightening. Take Care

Good Job, Fred. In addition/clarification to what you said... I have bred geckos for several years.

Rainwater is a term synonymous with Las Vegas Albino leopard geckos. Fred's right, Tim Rainwater did breed/sell a bunch of animals, and is credited with one of the three strains of albino leopard geckos. I'm not sure anymore how he came about it, whether accidentally hatched one out, or bought from someone who did. People have gone to calling them Las Vegas or 'LV' albinos, because many people were (allegedly) ripped off by Rainwater Reptiles, which used to be at cornsnake.com, around the time the Blizzards came on the market. The blizzards were originally marketed by another reptile breeder/store in CA, called Prehistoric Pets (still in business). So, people were upset with him and in order to not promote a guy with crappy business practices, they have changed the name to Las Vegas Albino. I'm not sure how many blizzards RW actually created and sold, because as I remember it, that was one of the big things they never delivered on. The last I remember on their website, they had a big presale on Blizzards and hets, and a notice about some big Amazon herping trip. I met him once and went over to his store, and I gotta admit, it was one of the better herp shops I've been to in the US (the one in the business park, not the retail strip mall). He seemed like a nice guy to me, but anyone can fool anyone for a short time.

They are breedable by any other leopard geckos out there, but not compatible with the Tremper Albinos or Bell Albinos, also named for other breeders. When bred to one of those, they will produce double hets for both strain of albino, but look normal.

Leopard and Fattail breedings will result in nothing that will live, as I understand it.
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