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Could some one please explain like the different kinds of morphs and the differences. I mean I kno like the albino,blizzards, and the general stuff like that, but whats all the hypo and super hyos or whatever.

Thank you

Hypo = 10 spots or less on the body

Super hypo = zero spots on the body
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Dan Quinn
Manhattan Herps

I am not a breeder and do not pretend to have the subjective experience of a breeder, but I can offer you some basic websites that offer morph pictorials and condensed genetics descriptions. I have always been a biology freak so I find this genetics stuff fascinating. For some people its just horribly confusing. At very least, these sites will give definitions of important terms: heterozygous, recessive, dominant, co-dominant, genotype, phenotype, etc.

The opinions and definitions held throughout these websites are still debatable (isn't everything!)and some of the stuff is a little out of date, but for the most part these sites can give you a beginning start on the genetics, line-bred traits, and morphology behind all these beautiful colorations.

Maybe one of the advanced breeders on this site can recommend some good books? The best books that I can think of are the animal genetics texts I had to read in college! I think experience and valid information sources are key.

VERY BASICS:

Dream Geckos has a pictorial which might be a good place to start looking at the morphs:
http://www.dreamgecko.com/morphs.html

I like Fred's site layout:
http://gekkonida.com/genetics-guide.htm

More Photos...just for fun. Steve also has his own separate genetics page on his site:
http://www.geckosetc.com/htm/morphs.htm

Mat Koss' Genetics...not sure about this but just for the charts:
http://www.reptilerooms.com/Sections+index-req-viewarticle-artid-60-page-1.html

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Too many Leos
1.0 feline "Spot"
0.1 canine "Tika"