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Just took a few pics while i was clenaing otu all my cages today.

Sean

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Is that a crested? It doesnt quite look like it, lack of crests and all. If so, that is certainly a unique looking gecko.

that looks like a cross between a chahuoa and a ciliatus. that's crazy looking.

That's what I thought too....so is it a Chahoua/ciliatus cross then? It certainly looks like one...
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that it is, im getting a female for him soon, just thought id post somthign different

Sean
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A ton of Crested Geckos
1 Vieled Cham (Tony Montana)
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did you buy it or produce it? and is it truly a cross between chahoua and ciliatus?

It is a true cross, and i bought it,
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1 Vieled Cham (Tony Montana)
Nosy Be Panther Chame (GEE)
1 Leo (Nikki)
1 Uro Yoshi
60 Gallon Hex African Cichlid Tank
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Having never seen a viable chahoua x ciliatus hybrid, I would have to assume thats either a strange looking chahoua or a chahoua x ariculatus blend. Am I right?

david

it's a chahuoa ciliatus cross according to him which was my first guess. look at the coloration, then look at the goofy partial crests over the eyes, and then there's a bit down the neck as well.

wow...i had no clue that it was possible to cross the species, much less that anyone was successful at it. weeeeeird.

Yeah it's not usually recommended to invent a new species, such as a hybrid. They're not found in the wild, most people don't think they should exist in some mad scientist's basement either. Oh well...
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To let alone the ethics of crossbreeding for a moment, I, knowing little about genitics and the sort was curious of the possibilities of a gecko like that. such as that gecko being rebreed to a normal crested.............bringing that color patern to cresteds? heck what about a gargoyle and crested hybred rebred to a crested in the future creating cresteds that regrow tails etc. i think the possibilties are endless. please post more pics of that animal and info about it!
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Yeah currently im trying to breed it with a cilli, the red one in the pic obiously.. to bring out more red coloration and hopefully some larger crests, so it would be 2 to 1 cilliatus to chahoua. I don't believe its wrong i believe its just like breeding anythign else if it's possible it should be explored. Obviously there not being released back into the wild. So i see nothing wrong with it.

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Sean

P.S. The female laid eggs but outside of the nest box and i couldn't get to them in time it siwerd she dosn't normaly do this so im going to try another nest box in the cage.

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A ton of Crested Geckos
1 Vieled Cham (Tony Montana)
Nosy Be Panther Chame (GEE)
1 Leo (Nikki)
1 Uro Yoshi
60 Gallon Hex African Cichlid Tank
26 Gallon Bowfront Marine Tank
1 Blue Quaker Parrot Kenny Blankenchip
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the other pic

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1 Black roughneck Monitor (Slick Rick)
A ton of Crested Geckos
1 Vieled Cham (Tony Montana)
Nosy Be Panther Chame (GEE)
1 Leo (Nikki)
1 Uro Yoshi
60 Gallon Hex African Cichlid Tank
26 Gallon Bowfront Marine Tank
1 Blue Quaker Parrot Kenny Blankenchip
My Email

i have heard about some of the rhac hybrids. i am getting into cresteds pretty hard core, but from the moment i learned it was possible to hybridize them i resolved to do the chahoua x ciliatus cross.
i know some people find it to be wrong, but i am not one of them. i think the animal looks awsome. post up some pics of the babies when they come!!

Andrew Ellis

hey , that animal is sweet looking, but i dunno , mebbe its just me , but i think they are awesome the way they are. I mean look what happened to boas, u cant find a proven hog island out there like ever. Id hate it to get to that point where u cant even find a regular crested gecko , granted that would be a veeeery long way down the road , but still , this only startd happening w boas a decade or two ago , now look what u have online. Im all for pure , even locality pure ( such as in leachies) animals , and even though they may look cool , thats all this is, n its definately not doing the already small gene pool here in the us any good. but either way , awesome looking gecko. just my 2 cents
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