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Banana Blizzard.... hmmmm

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Ok.... just when I resolve to myself that Frigga and Odin are pattys..... from discussion over the pics I posted on this board and other....I go to Kellis page at hisss.net and see this beauty on her morph guide.....

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Banana Blizzard....(property hisss.net)

Now lookit this! My girl Frigga....

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(property hisss.net)

Now....I'm not too sure AGAIN.... they look seperated at birth!

BUT on further research I have found a few pics of some pattys that look alot like both her and the male I got from the same parents....

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(property www.menagerie.on.ca)

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(property www.geckosetc.com)

So you see its not as cut and dried as it seems... even Kelli at hisss.net couldn't verify them visually,the only way we will know for certain is when they have hatchlings... there are eggs in the 'bator now....

Just thought it was interesting how similar these two morphs can be....
 
the head on mine has the same markings Scott.... just don't show up well in that pic...
Here's a larger version..... you can see the pattern there....

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I'll see if I can get a good shot of her headtonight as well....not saying she is or isn't a patternless,just wanted to be clear that there is a pattern on her head..... ;)
 
must be either my monitor or the picture, I am not sure

Either way that is one great looking leo!
 
she's a beaut no doubt either way thanks...lol.... I'm not overly concerned if they turn out to be pattys.... she and the male are identical and absolute dolls....

Yeah.... it could be the pic...PROLLY is the pic....
 
Jeremy.... what is the basis exactly? Like I said, I was convinced she was a patty, but after seeing that pic on Kelli's site I was swayed again... in the flesh she is IDENTICAL to that one... right down to the pattern on the head , only difference is mine dosn't have that much orange on the base of the tail.

On that point, it was one of the things that people pointed at when I first posted her as a clue she was patternless, was the bit of orange on her tail, but then I see Kellis and there's A LOT of orange on the tail...

lol.... paint me confused....

As I said though, it will be confirmed soon enough... one cluth in the incubator now !
 
Cory, I believe that the picture of Kelli's that you posted is a TRUE banana blizzard. A gecko homogenus for patternless and blizzard. So it has patternless genes as well as blizzard genes, both of which can be visibly seen. Therefore you can see a resemblance to your patternless gecko.
 
Thanks Jeremy!

I'll be sure to post pics in a couple of months as the wee ones hatch out...lol....

Like I said, I was resolved that she was a patty.... this was just an effort to get a confirmation on that...

Thanks again for the explanation...
 
OK what I see is Kelli's pic is a yellow pattern overlayed on a lavenderish body, on yours I see the yellow pattern overlayed onto no body color.

Its a good comparison to show what a bananna blizzard and a patternless look like and even though the yellow part of the pattern may be the same they have a different under body color.
 
Interesting observation Wendy thanks.... its been an interesting exercise for me.

I obtained both of these guys from a local herp shop, they were sold as blizzards and I really had no reason to doubt what they were until they got a little older and the yellow started to come out in them. When I got them as younguns they were almost completly white....

Its been an eyeopener the last little while as I posted pics and got different opinions on what exactly they were....

I'm happy either way.... I do have a confirmed blizzard female that will work with my plans,and which ever way these two prove out I will work them into my plans, cause frankly, they are BOTH beauties!!! lol...
 
Do you still hae the pics from when they were babies, I think I remember the thread but Im not sure.
 
Ohhh..I never knew the bannana blizzard was a blizzard/patty! I always thought that it was just a yellow blizzard...lol.
 
Wendy.... here is a pic of Frigga when I first got her, she was about 3 months old here. Sorry for the crappy pic....

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and another about a month or two after we got her....

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I was going to take a fresh pic of her tonight but she is currently in the middle of a shed...I'll check back before I go to bed and see if she is finished....

The male I don't have a pic of as a young one as he hung out at the herp store for a couple of month before we decided to bring him home....
 
I agree that this is a toughy! And, on the same note... it's a trophy!

My instincts say Patternless but the young pic certainly makes for an arguement of Blizzard!
 
Yeah Gene.... as I am said, not overly concerned either way as they are BOTH beauts... I do have a confirmed blizzard anyway, and while my plans were a bell/blizzard project, which I can still do with my confirmed blizz, a bell/patty project can be equally intriguing....
 
Very true, she looks like the other patty babies Ive seen at the age those pics were taken. Im fascinated by pattys so Im looking at them constantly lol

Either way they are both nice looking leos.
 
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