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Melanistic Leopard Gecko...?

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I was wondering if there is a proven melanistic trait for in Leopard Geckos?
I was at the Hamburg, PA show yesterday, and there was an adult Lep, that had an incredible amount of black. It was beautiful, and I should've inquired. It was a beautiful geck, and had a lot of black.
I was just wondering if anybody happened to know if melanism has been proven yet...?
 
Proven for what? My understanding is it is just like hypomelanistic leopard geckos (hypos..) that it is line bred. Kelli has a melanistic group I know, and Monte had a few dark ones. Maybe can share some experience.
 
To my knowledge, there has not been a proven melanistic trait discovered in leopard geckos. Boy do I wish there was, can you imagina a solid jet black leo? That would be the ultimate.

I have a small group of dark ones, the corect term for them would be hypermelanistic I guess. I got one of my females from Monte.

Here she is, my girl, her name is Mel-
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And here is another female of mine, her name is Baby-
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I have one other dark female, I need to take a picture of her though.

Anyway, I am wanting to do some selective breeding to try and increase the black even more in them. They are my favorites of all my leos.
 
Dang i have a male you might could use.

This guy is not as Dark I don't think as those girls but he is nice and dark. Just a thought. I am sure you probably have darker males than this guy.


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hypermelanistic leo

Some guy has a dark one he is breeding to another dark one. He said it is called a "midnight" phase. I have heard of them being called hypermelanistic as well. Never saw either in person or anything, just pictures so I don't know if they are different or the same thing. There is a discussion about it on ks from a few days ago in the leo forum. It was called "All black leos wtf??" or something close to that.

You can also see a hypermelanistic at
http://www.leopard-gecko.net/morphs/hyper_melanistic.html

here is a link to that post on ks, it has some pics of his midnight blizzard as well.
http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=597486,598227
 
Kelii do you remember this?

This isn't my pic, but hopefully Kristin Armitage will update us. Cause we were all wondering if this leo would lighten up?
 

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the leo at leopard-gecko.net is a dark patternless... if i remember correctly kelli has hatched out a few of these whom end up lightening up
 
the second leo is a blizzard coined a midnight blizzard by garrick de meyer. he has been working for a few years on this but as far as i know they do not hold the black, they do lighten up some and do not breed true , as far as i can remember
 
The one I saw was more like Kelli's, named Baby. It had the same kind of black patterning that Baby's head had except it had that kind of patterning over it's entire body.
 
keeping color

From what I understand, that guy on ks's is adut size and has kept her color all her life. She was old enough to breed last year but not fat enough so he said he might give it a shot this year.
 
This is mine...she is about 5 years now, bought her at a petshop about 4 years ago. I was thinking about breeding her, but I really don't have anything to go with her, so I'm not sure. She is more of a family pet anyway.

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The pic is a bit darker than what she really is, but that's still a pretty close picture. The yellow on her is a very grungy color.
 
Probably another dark normal would be obvious. I think a tangerine would be cool, if you have one that is not hypo, which seems rare these days. A nice dark leo and a bright orange...maybe even red background. That would be cool.
 
I think im seeing a lot of normal fat females being called hyper now. Just that we, well I know I, are/am not used to seeing them as often as high yellows and tangs.
 
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