Year End Egg Surprise

I knew I had a few females that were ovulating and I knew one may be carrying eggs but I did not expect her to drop them on today, the last day of the year, on the night of the blue moon !

I rushed out to get some perlite and made the proper container & I now have it at 80 degrees. I am ordering a incubator on Saturday since most places will be closed tomorrow on New Years Day! ( U2 anyone? )




My TUG Sunglow male is still hard at work with a few of my other Sunglow Leopard Geckos.

Vision Racks Update

I found that after my 1754 15qt Vision Rack was set up and fully operational that the 15 qt tubs just did not feel right for an adult Leopard Gecko. I know it's just me as these really are the standard for adult Leos. It just seemed they had such limited room that they messed it up too quickly!

SO my solution? I simply set up the spacious Vision Rack V-35 that I obtained earlier. It is simply perfect!

The 1754 15 qt will now be the hatchling rack when that all happens down the road......

Pictured here is the V-35 that has 22 Tubs & the 1755 that has ten 32 qt tubs.
In the middle is a 4 drawer Sterilite storage rack that houses 3,000 meal worms in the top two drawers & 1,000 Super Worms in the bottom two!

Vision Racks

Sunshine Leopard Geckos has aquired M.A.L.T Leopard Geckos after they had to close for personal reasons and now has several Vison Racks as well as a Animal Plastics hatchling rack. Here is the Vision Rack 1574 - 15 qt rack set up with single adult leos.

Big Day at Sunshine Geckos!

Well today was a HUGE day for the future of Sunshine Leopard Geckos!

Two top notch Vision Racks were obtained along with a AP Hatchling rack!!
Helix Thermostats, Tubs & too much other goodies to list were obtained today and let me not forget to mention the stellar collection of 16+ Leopard Geckos along with them!! The quality is outstanding on these new guys and the sky is the limit.

Pictures in the near future!

A Closer Look at the RED One

This gem could be my star female if she can pass her stunning red to her future babies.


She is plumping up real good!
A full seven grams in two weeks.

Diversity

This is Leopard Gecko Diversity
Look at these stunning color variations!

Tangerine Leopard Gecko

I thought I would slap up a picture of one of my Deep Red Tangerine Females.
This is pretty much how she really looks although I did use flash with a point & shoot on this one. The other image is od a normal Tangerine Female. I named her Big Mama as she is a whopping 85 grams!

I need to work on how to photograph them in a more natural light to show exactly how they look color wise!

RED TANGERINE



BIG MAMA

TUG Sunglow & Tangerine Tornado Leopard Geckos

I have seen the grail of Leopard Geckos (to me) and they are Deep Reddish & Orange.
They are produced by The Urban Gecko and one is called a Sunglow and the other a Tangerine Tornado.
The Sunglow is solid orange red with a almost full red tail.
The Tangerine Tornado is the same but the stark white belly line & the Carrot tail witrh black & white spots is riviting!

I want to breed Orange & Red Leopard Geckos. They are everything that I imagined and more in a lizard. Stunning really. I will try to link some pictures of them so you too can stare in awe at their beauty.

These are the ones.

Albino Strain Mystery - SOLVED! + New Albino!

I was informed by the experts at Gecko Forums that my female Albino was indeed a Tremper Albino Leopard Gecko plus I found a sweet site that explains the three strains eye color!
I received a call that someone had a Leopard Gecko they could no longer care for so I rushed to the rescue and found a two year old Female Albino Leopard Gecko waiting for me. When I picked her up the first thing I noticed was how pink here eyes were!

Now with number one Albino when you look at her eyes they look like a light bronze in normal light (the flash made them appear lighter then that) but number two has light pink eyes no matter what light you look at them in!

I am told that she is a Bells Albino.

67 grams, two years old & freindly as a kitten.

Life is good!

Michael

Albino Strain Mystery

I have a female Albino Leopard Gecko & I am not sure what Albino strain she is from as there are three strains which are Tremper, Bell & Rainwater (Las Vegas). I have posted her image on the Gecko Forums Board to try & find out from the pros exactly what type I have!

Here she is:

Sunshine Leopard Gecko

Well I am going to start breeding Leopard Geckos as a hobby. I am starting with a small group that consist of some of my favorite Morps. Geckos I had NO idea that existed until last month.


First let me tell you that I have bred Leopard Geckos before, way back in 1993-1995.
These were the normal Leopard Geckos. No exotics. I think the most exciting Leo was a striped one. I just called it aberrant. I gave my two breeding pairs to a friend who loved & cared for them as I got more & more into photography.

The last I remember on the Leopard Gecko front was Ray from Strictly Reptiles telling me of
baby albinos for sale for $ 1,000.00 plus!! I remember thinking that it must be a one off and I never looked at or saw another Leopard Gecko again until October of 2009 and what I saw made I eyeballs fall out of my head! ORANGE geckos with white tails and black polka dots....... was this real? No way! The name alone.... Super Hypo Tangerine Carrot Tail... are you kidding me!?



Then I saw the prices for some of these alien looking Leos.... 35.00 - 40.00 WHAT!!??
I paid 75+ for normals 15 years ago and now before me were acid looking Leos for half that? I bought a trio on the spot! They were mine! What if this guy had a rare Leo & did not know it?


Well I soon learned via google that the Leopard Gecko world already knew about my "rare" Leo
and that there are so many different Morphs that my head still hurts trying to grasp them all.
It seems that just as I got out of breeding Leos thing really, really, took off! There was some mad, mad, money changing hands & some people made tens of thousands of dollars a year breeding, cross breeding, line breeding these beautiful Leopard Geckos! I missed out.


So now I have some of these new fangled Leopard Geckos and I am going to have some fun.

Here's what I have.
A trio of Tremper Sunglows
A trio of Super Hypo Tangerine Carrot Tails
A trio of Hypo Tangerine Carrot Tails
One Female Albino
One Male High Yellow Normal
One Male Tangerine Enigma


OK.... Let's see what I can do before I confuse myself any further.