Today I took some new pictures of our tangerine leopard gecko breeding pair. Halloween, the male is the hypomelanistic one. Midnight is darker and more plump. Both are very sweet and friendly.
Halloween and Midnight
Feb
4
Introduced 2 pairs of leopard geckos yesterday. The first are 2 albinos that were sold to me as Bell albinos. However, the folks at geckoforums.net thought that they were plain old Tremper albinos. My plan is to breed the male, Winston, with Bella, the possible Bell albino, and to breed him to a known Tremper albino.
If both crosses result in albino offspring, then he is a Tremper, and Bella is also a Tremper. If Winston and Bella are Bells, I will get albinos with this cross and no albinos when I breed hom to a Tremper albino.
My female Tremper albinos are not yet big enough to breed, so that cross will wait a few more months.
The second breeding project is with 2 tangs. I don’t have a detailed history of their genetics. I got Halloween (the male) at Petco and the female I picked up at the Manchester NH reptile expo back in September. She was a very dark juvie and the person selling her didn’t know why. I thought she was cool and I got her for only $10. We named her Midnight, because she was so dark.
As Midnight has matured she is a nice light tangerine color with high contrast dark, bold spots of black.
These picture are from when this pair was younger. Will get some new pictures up soon. I promise.
Feb
4
It has been 10 days since Lemon Drop laid 2 eggs. I looked at them this morning and one was starting to mold. When I touched it, I noticed it was soft. The other egg is nice and firm though. I removed the dud, spritzed the perlite with a little water and put the ‘good’ egg back in the incubator. I had opened the container on Monday to give it a little oxygen but didn’t touch the eggs at that time.
Lemon Drop looks like she will lay another clutch in a few days. Fingers crossed for fertile eggs.