What is it?!

Ally · #1 (**permalink**) 01-02-2008, 09:51 PM

We have a baby Leo that we hatched at work...

Dad was a very big normal with one jet black eye (the other was very, very dark silver, but in bright light you could see it was not black) this was not a proven thing - this and a couple of hypos were all the youngsters that he fathered for us. Being a very old boy, he's now been rehomed for retirement.

Is the black-eye thing common, and is it often seen outside of Eclipse breeding?

Mum was a Blazing Blizzard with two 50% snake eyes.

So, the baby is a normal (that we can see!) with normal eyes.

She's het for Blazing Blizzard - would that mean she's also technically het for albino and Blizzard seperatley? (ie, if bred to an albino, could produce albinos, and to a blizzard could produce blizzards?)

Can they be het for snake eye - (I have no idea how that one works!) or is it like the all-black eyes in blizzards etc that have nothing to do with black eyes in other colour geckos?

So, anyone got any idea what the little thing is?!
(other than a real cutie, of course!)

Ssthisto · #2 (**permalink**) 01-02-2008, 10:29 PM

Dad could theoretically be an Eclipse. He could just be an anomaly.

Baby is het for Tremper albino and for Blizzard. They ARE separate traits, so yes, you'd get some albinos if bred to an albino or het; you'd get some blizzards if bred to a blizzard or het.

I don't know what the heritability of Blizzard Snake Eye is.

Ally · #3 (**permalink**) 01-02-2008, 11:12 PM

That'll do me. Nice to know there are some certainties with her genetics...
Almost a shame the dad isn't available to breed (if she does turn out to be a she of course!) just to see...
We have a normal and a hypo (same age) from the same dad to a hypo mum around though...
Maybe I should keep them all!

Thanks!

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