Black Spot leo project?

[fireReptiles]

I've seen some leos has weird black splotches on their bodies.
Has anyone tried to breed these black splotches leos?
If anyone knows, Are these genetics or just random mutation?

I have a male blizzard that has two black spots on its body and face, and a Normal female that have one huge black spot in the middle of her back.

here they're:

 

[Repti]

Those are birth marks.

 

[Dan Lubinsky]

Yeah, they just pop up now and then. I've noticed no heritability thru several generations from parents with those. Orange ones happen also but seem to be a different phenomenon, the edges are more smooth.

 

[diablohogs]

i had one that i gave to a friend that had a orange spot on the elbow that eventually filled in with black and the spot on her back started to bleed outward. i still have access to her so i can take i picture next time i'm over. i bet i actually have some younger pictures of her... i'll look. she reminds me a little of the top gecko (the high yellow), but shes a hypo.

 

[diablohogs]

here she is but this picture was taken before the orange filled in with black. next time i go over to my friends house i will try to get a current picture of her. the spot on her back bled out and is much larger now, a lot like the first picture you posted.

 

[Supahypegex]

Yeah, they just pop up now and then. I've noticed no heritability thru several generations from parents with those. Orange ones happen also but seem to be a different phenomenon, the edges are more smooth.

I have two geckos that have the orange spots it is kind of odd. one is on a female that was hatched about 2 years ago. the other from last year. the spot is on the left side of the head/neck area it must be from my male since the these two did not come from the same Female.
later this year I plan to breed the one back to that male.

 

[aliceinwl]

I know that Kelli Hammack of HISS got the black spotted blizzards to breed true. I'm not sure if she ever figured out the genetics of it. I believe she was calling them dalmatian blizzards. I don't know if any of the random black spotting on other morphs has proven hereditary. I hatched out a spotted patternless a few years ago, but haven't gotten around to breeding him. If you're interested in starting a project, it would probably be a good idea to try contacting Kelli about the dalmatian blizzards and how that trait seemed to be inherited.

-Alice