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Interesting Spot

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Just a neat looking spot on this one. Thought I had heard someone post something about it similiar but I couldn't find the thread. The spot shows up really well because its beneath that lateral line that leopards have where their white belly starts.

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sure

Thats a male. If you want him he's yours.
 
chad i have two super hypos with a spot on their side and i have one tangerine with a purple blotch on it butt... litterally... i do not know what it is... a birthmark?
regardless he is very pretty
 
she has had this since birth... its my little spotted butt
 

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OH wow that is strange. Purple mark like that could be useful! Imagine a big purple patch ontop of the face or something. Or if it spread. Thats really cool. These spots and blotches are very interesting. I wish I knew what caused them and how they are related to the overall color.
 
Hey chad the female tangerine you sent me has one of those spots on her side, are they related?
. They do look cool. I have an older high yellow with an orange spot on her neck too.


And here is my girl with a big old blotch. It looks black on the orange and purple where it goes to her white belly.
 

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yep

Sarah your female has the same PAPA as that male I posted above. He is a Hypo from Albey.
 
That’s a nice looking spot Chad. You should hook him up with the spots on Kelli’s geckos. :D

That is a weird looking spot Robin… but I must say it’s kind of cool looking.
 
Chad, that is pretty cool. The orange color of that spot is very bright. Good looking gecko also.
 
its actually purple with and orange dot in the middle but my camera sucks....... she really doesnt have a name so whem im asking russ to do something and i need her im like "get that blotchy assed one"
 
hummm

well thats definetely one I would hold onto for further working with. I would mix that with a Super and see if it passes through or maybe just the opposite. Could use a melanistic male with her and see if it has an effect. But definetely try something. Imagine a large purple blotch like that over an entire portion of the body. That would be neat. Who knows what could be done.
 
As I recall . . .

. . . when I talked to RT when he spoke in MN, he told me thats how he started with color morphs, by building on a "spot of color". I wish I could remember the exact quote - but it was something to the effect "see that tangerine scale - from there we can build something."

Kelli has the right idea in getting an all red leo, in my opinion. Get those big spots together and let the mating begin.

Remember the very old SNL skit "The Large "Butt" family"? Same deal . . . .
 
Yeah

I can see that working. Of course I already have leopards that are the same color as the spot. Actually the one I posted is that color overall its just that it stands out on the white portion of his neck. Its interesting cause you can see it clearly on the white portion along the laterl line of the gecko. This brings to mind seeing a leopard gecko with some sort of pattern or color on its belly! Now that would really be something!!! As far as I know none exist like this!
 
Just figured it out. The guy at the convenience store has one on his forehead, they are from Pakistan...

LOL..

But anyway, one of my SCCTBs had an orange spot on her neck, after cooling it turned black with an orange dot in the middle. Bet it could still be passed on. None of her babies had it though. I did have another baby with a black lip spot.. that was cool. I will see if I can find a pic.
 
i have a gecko with something similar that i posted about. i managed to scrape up a picture (i no longer have a digi cam).

the crazy thing is on mine...it wasnt always there. it appeared after a shed. and grew after every shed and than eventually turned black. in addition to that the small spot on her back keeps growing still to this day. its really weird.

if it continues to get bigger i should end up with a solid black gecko in about 2 years (im guessing). i will be getting a digicam very soon and i plan to to snap a new picture of her than. the spot is now about half the size of a dime.

p.s. she was just a 40-50 dollar hypo i picked up from VMS.
 

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