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Okay, I have a male crested gecko. His name is Lancelot. During the day, his colors on his side range from green to turquoise, with a brown head and stripe down the back. At night, completely dark green. I think maybe he's a normal, but I am not sure. Here he is. Any thoughts?

Here's his baby from his mating to my female yellow dalmation. This little guy now has tiger stripes, dalmation spots, and is turning yellow.

here we go again....
crested cannot be blue, green, turquoise or whatever shade or combination of the first two you want to call them.
your crested gecko is a buckskin, which is a brown-brownish gold/yellow color. please don't take this the wrong way, but it's the plain truth.

TURQUOISE

Brown and yellow make olive, so the I am sure the animal gets an olive wash, which alot of people would call green because they usually don't use the word olive to describe a color. Just MHO. -Joe

>>here we go again....
>>crested cannot be blue, green, turquoise or whatever shade or combination of the first two you want to call them.
>>your crested gecko is a buckskin, which is a brown-brownish gold/yellow color. please don't take this the wrong way, but it's the plain truth.
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>>TURQUOISE
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i'd like to say on the whole i like you flamedcrestie. You have some real nice geckos, you know a lot and all that. But you seem to jump on people for the smallest thing.
Yeah ok, anyone who's been here for more then a week probably knows technically there is no GREEN crested. But if you took a pack of pencil crayons and storted them by colour i think almost everyone would put the crayon labled olive in the green pile instead of brown or yellow, and certainly not on it's own. So visually it IS green even if the manufacturer used yellow and brown wax to make it.
I know my crested is olive and not green, but i still say green when describing her to others because olive had a more drab mental image.
On the flip side i understand why it is important to know that it's not yellow and blue but rather yellow and brown as it can give a little more insight on the colour of offspring.
having said that, snappish responses make this forum seem hostile, so even when trying to make sure everyone has the right info, people don't want to come and post because no one likes being yelled at, even on the net
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- Melanie

2.0.0 cats
0.2.2 crested geckos
2.2.1 leopard geckos
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1.1.1 red ear sliders
0.0.1 emperor scorpion
0.0.1 chilean rose tarantula
1 planted tank with dwarf cichlids and platies

i know... i just can't help it sometimes.
it doesn't really bother me when they call it green. just when they label it something like.... GRASS GREEN, or TURQUOISE. something that is obviously far from olive ( which i would agree under my own common termonlogy would mean a greenish tint and i would personally categorize it as green rather than brown) let's just remember animals that truly show these colors ( panther chameleons, day geckos etc.) and seriously look at how foolish it seems to call a crested gecko turquoise or grass green. it just doesn't make any sense and i don't see how someone can start to call something what it obviously is not.( olive yes, turquoise, obviously not)

Dude, I never said there was a turquoise morph or even a green morph. I was just explaining the color that appears on his body. So what if he is a normal? It doesn't bother me. I think he is an olive or whatever, cause thats what the other (nice) people said he looked like. I'm not an idiot. Thanks to the others.

And yes, sometimes his sides do have a somewhat teal color to them. Sorry if you don't like it. I know my colors, and I know teal doesn't look like olive, but its a bluish green that appears on his sides during the day, not an olive color.

I can sense the rolling eyes when you posted your message. And yes, sometimes he does appear to have turquoise coloring to his sides, but I never said he was green/turquoise/blue or whatnot. Those are the colors that appear on him. I've owned cresteds for over a year and a half now, and know the colors. I wasn't sure if he fit into the olive category or the buckskin. Besides, if he was some sort of rare color, woophdeedoo. Not like I'm selling him or anything. To me its the animal, not the color, that is important.

i believe you are the one who asked what your crested gecko is. i told you it was a buckskin. i never said there is anything wrong with that, infact i have 3 plain crested geckos myself along with my nice breeders. my point was plain and simple, you gecko is obviously not turquoise, because that is impossible. i'm just going by your first post, and telling you that it is not turquoise and giving you an example as to why it is not turquoise. yes i know i came off as rude, but sometimes that's the only way to make your point.

I never said he was all turquoise, just that his sides appeared with the color during the daytime. Anyway, this is a stupid argument to begin with. Lets drop it. We both know there's no such thing as a turquoise morph, and there never has been. But just because a gecko is a normal, doesn't mean that he can't have a spot of different color on him every now and then.