Morph section
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Morph section
I was thinking, since we have a section where people can ask what morph their leo is, why don't we have a section with a list of pictures that can help us self-morph id them. Like, a picture of each morph, so people can look at them and try to id their leo themselves.
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I think it would be a good resource to have on the site.
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I think it would be a good resource to have on the site.
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Re: Morph section
It would definitely be a great resource for the site Kath.
The problem is where do we get pictures of every morph?
And who is going to write it.
As an alternative for now though i will provide anyone who wants it:
(i wrote this myself back when i was learning everything)
Single Traits
Aberrant – Born with broken body bands, but not broken tail bands. The pattern develops into a unique and different shape every time. Similar to Jungle without broken tail bands.
Albino – There are three types of Albino, see Bell Albino, Tremper Albino and Rainwater Albino. All Albino genes are simple recessive.
Abyssinian – Said to be a fourth albino but yet to be proven as albino. None to this day have had black on their body and they have red veins in their eyes.
Baldy – A polygenic trait that acts as recessive. A Baldy is a gecko with no spots on its head. Usually a Baldy is Super Hypomelanistic.
Bell Albino – A recessive albino gene. The eyes are a light pink colour, and their body often carries brown and lavender patterns.
Black Pearl – A gene that gives the gecko a very dark velvety appearance. The genetics are still being tested.
Blizzard – A simple recessive morph that creates a white patternless gecko. The whiteness of the gecko can vary from greyish to stark white.
Bold Stripe – A gecko with 2 dark bold stripes running down its sides. Similar to a Stripe but promenantly darker. Acts as recessive.
Carrot Tail – A polygenic trait, carrot tail is basically orange colouration on the tail. Usually it’s considered ‘the more the better’.
Eclipse – A recessive eye trait in which it completely covers the eye in black. When an albino is homozygous for eclipse the eye is completely red.
Emerald – A line bred trait in which the gecko shows certain green hues, almost like lime colour on the body. Sometimes called Emerine.
Enigma – A co-dominant gene, that carries with it neurological problems. Some enigma geckos can show signs of these issues and many don’t. It is debateable whether or not enigma’s should be bred. The enigma messes with the eyes and back pattern, often creating speckled patterning, can also wash out tail colour.
Gem Snow – A dominant snow gene. Hatchlings are born completely black and white and often stay rather light through life.
Ghost – Very faded colours, almost like shedding. Gene is thought to be co-dominant.
Giant – A co-dominant trait that makes hatchlings grow faster and larger than average leopard gecko’s. When fully grown they are noticeable larger. This is the heterozygous version.
Halloween Mask – A gecko with very dark patterning on its head and face. Acts as recessive.
High Yellow – A gecko with brighter yellow colouring and less spots. Line Bred.
Hypomelanistic(hypo) – A gecko which produces less black, resulting in less spots. Similar to High Yellow, but it is thought a Hypo must have less than 10 spots and High yellow more than ten. Line bred.
Jungle – A gecko with a mixed up random pattern on its back and its tail. Similar to Aberrant but Jungles are only Jungle if their tail rings are broken, if not they are Aberrant.
Lavender – A random trait in which a gecko shows a lot of lavender colouration.
Line Bred Snow – Another snow type. Line bred for more whiter colouration.
Mack Snow – The main snow gene. It is co-dominant and Mack Snow is the heterozygous version of the gene. A Mack snow hatchling is completely black and white and can look a lot like a normal when fully grown.
Marble Eye – Still being tested. An eye trait which literally makes the eye look marble like.
Murphy Patternless – A recessive gene. A Patternless gecko is completely yellow with not pattern on the body, tail or head.
Normal – The normal dominant gene, the normal wild pattern. Yellow body with lots of Leopard like spots.
Paradox – A random occurrence in which something happens which technically shouldn’t happen on a gecko. For example an albino producing a black spot.
Patternless Stripe – A recessive gene in which the gecko is patternless and shows a clear dorsal stripe. Usually connected With Tremper Albinos and RAPTORS.
Rainwater Albino – A recessive albino gene. Generally lighter in colour but the eyes are darker than the other albino strains.
Red Stripe – A line bred trait where the gecko has 2 red stripes running down at each side of its spine.
Reverse Stripe – A gecko with a dark stripe running down the back of its body from its neck to its hind legs.
Snake Eyes – Snake Eyes is where the eye is only partially covered in solid black. There are two types of Snake eyes. Sometimes Blizzards can be born with snake eyes, it is a random occurrence and not linked at all to the Eclipse gene. The second Snake Eyes does occur from the Eclipse gene, sometimes homozygous Eclipse geckos can only have half of their eye coloured.
Stripe – Acts recessive. A trait in which the geckos body has stripes running down from the neck to tail.
Super Giant – The homozygous version of Giant. Same as Giant but even bigger and faster growing.
Super Hypo – Absolutely no spotting on the body. Comes from breeding Hypo’s to get less spotting.
Super Snow – The homozygous version of Mack Snow. A super is completely white with black spotting running down its back. A Super Snow also has completely black eyes but is not connected to the Eclipse gene.
TUG Snow – Another snow gene. Thought to be Axanthic where little to no yellow is produced. This snow gene is dominant.
Tangerine – A line bred trait in which the gecko shows orange colouration on its body.
Tremper Albino – The most common albino strain. Light grey eyes and light tan coloured patterning. Simple recessive.
White And Yellow – A trait that is still being tested. Similar to Enigma but without the negative issues.
White Side – A line bred trait, a gecko with very high white sides.
Double Trait Morphs
APTOR – Albino Patternless Tremper ORange. Tremper Albino and Patternless stripe.
Banana Blizzard – Murphy Patternless and Blizzard.
Blazing Blizzard – Any Albino Strain and Blizzard. E.g Tremper Blazing Blizzard.
BEE – Black-Eyed Enigma. Eclipse and Enigma.
Firewater – Rainwater Albino and Tangerine.
Hybino – Super Hypo and Albino.
Hypo Tangerine – A tangerine with less spotting.
Raining Red Stripe – Rainwater Albino and Red stripe.
SHT – Super Hypo Tangerine. A tangerine with no spotting.
Tangelo – Tangerine and Tremper Albino.
Also a lot of obvious ones like Mack Snow Albino, Hypo Mack snow etc. but the names are the same as the genes involved.
Triple Trait Morphs
Banana Blazing Blizzard – Murphy Patternless and Albino and Blizzard.
Black Hole – Enigma, Mack Snow and Eclipse.
Creamsicle – SHT and Mack Snow. Should also include some carrot tail.
Hyglo – Super Hypo, Tangerine and Tremper.
RADAR – Bell Albino, Eclipse and patternless stripe. Bell version of RAPTOR.
RAPTOR – Red-eyed Albino Patternless Tremper ORange. Tremper Albino, Eclipse and Patternless stripe.
SHTCT – Super Hypo, Tangerine, Carrot Tail.
SHTB – Super Hypo, Tangerine and Baldy
Super Creamsicle – Super Snow and SHT.
Typhoon – Rainwater Albino, Eclipse and Patternless Stripe. Rainwater version of RAPTOR.
Again there are obvious ones where the names are the traits, e.g. Mack Snow RAPTOR
Quadruple Trait Morphs
Aurora – Mack Snow, Rainwater Albino, Murphy Patternless and Enigma.
Diablo Blanco – Blizzard and RAPTOR (Eclipse, Tremper, Patternless Stripe).
Ember – Murphy Patternless and RAPTOR (Eclipse, Tremper, Patternless Stripe).
Nova – Enigma and RAPTOR (Eclipse, Tremper, Patternless Stripe).
Phantom – TUG Snow, Super Hypo, Tangerine and Albino. TUG Snow Sunglow.
RAPTOR Creamsicle – Super Hypo, Tangerine, Mack Snow and Eclipse. Despite being called Raptor, it doesn’t contain Tremper Albino or Patternless Stripe.
Snowglow – Super Hypo, Tangerine, Albino and Mack Snow. Mack Snow Sunglow.
Stealth – Mack Snow and RADAR (Bell Albino, Eclipse, Patternless stripe).
Sunglow – Albino and SHTCT (Super Hypo, Tangerine, Carrot Tail.
Super Aurora – Super Snow, Murphy Patternless, Rainwater Albino, Enigma.
Super RAPTOR – Super Snow and RAPTOR (Eclipse, Tremper, Patternless Stripe).
Super Stealth – Super Snow and RADAR (Bell Albino, Eclipse and Patternless Stripe)
5 Trait Morphs
Dreamsicle – Mack Snow, Enigma and RAPTOR (Eclipse, Tremper, Patternless Stripe).
Super Nova – Super Snow, Enigma, RAPTOR (Eclipse, Tremper, Patternless Stripe).
Breeder Lines
Black Velvet – Team Artlink Gecko’s Melanistic Line.
Electric – Kelli Hammock’s (HISS) strong coloured tangerine baldy line.
JBRGlow – JBR’s line of strong coloured RAPTORS.
Nieves Tangerine – David Nieves tangerine line, with a unique look.
Tangerine Tornado – The Urban Gecko’s Tangerine line. With a deep red colouring.
Others
Blue Tail – Random genetic mutation currently still being tested and re-created.
Florida Albino – Another name for Bell albino.
Las Vegas Albino – Another name for Rainwater Albino.
Texas Albino – Another name for Tremper Albino.
Wild Type – Same as Normal.
Afghan – Afghanicus, a leopard gecko sub species. Usually darker and smaller.
Fascio – Fasciolatus, another sub species.
Montanus – Another sub species.
The problem is where do we get pictures of every morph?
And who is going to write it.
As an alternative for now though i will provide anyone who wants it:
(i wrote this myself back when i was learning everything)
Single Traits
Aberrant – Born with broken body bands, but not broken tail bands. The pattern develops into a unique and different shape every time. Similar to Jungle without broken tail bands.
Albino – There are three types of Albino, see Bell Albino, Tremper Albino and Rainwater Albino. All Albino genes are simple recessive.
Abyssinian – Said to be a fourth albino but yet to be proven as albino. None to this day have had black on their body and they have red veins in their eyes.
Baldy – A polygenic trait that acts as recessive. A Baldy is a gecko with no spots on its head. Usually a Baldy is Super Hypomelanistic.
Bell Albino – A recessive albino gene. The eyes are a light pink colour, and their body often carries brown and lavender patterns.
Black Pearl – A gene that gives the gecko a very dark velvety appearance. The genetics are still being tested.
Blizzard – A simple recessive morph that creates a white patternless gecko. The whiteness of the gecko can vary from greyish to stark white.
Bold Stripe – A gecko with 2 dark bold stripes running down its sides. Similar to a Stripe but promenantly darker. Acts as recessive.
Carrot Tail – A polygenic trait, carrot tail is basically orange colouration on the tail. Usually it’s considered ‘the more the better’.
Eclipse – A recessive eye trait in which it completely covers the eye in black. When an albino is homozygous for eclipse the eye is completely red.
Emerald – A line bred trait in which the gecko shows certain green hues, almost like lime colour on the body. Sometimes called Emerine.
Enigma – A co-dominant gene, that carries with it neurological problems. Some enigma geckos can show signs of these issues and many don’t. It is debateable whether or not enigma’s should be bred. The enigma messes with the eyes and back pattern, often creating speckled patterning, can also wash out tail colour.
Gem Snow – A dominant snow gene. Hatchlings are born completely black and white and often stay rather light through life.
Ghost – Very faded colours, almost like shedding. Gene is thought to be co-dominant.
Giant – A co-dominant trait that makes hatchlings grow faster and larger than average leopard gecko’s. When fully grown they are noticeable larger. This is the heterozygous version.
Halloween Mask – A gecko with very dark patterning on its head and face. Acts as recessive.
High Yellow – A gecko with brighter yellow colouring and less spots. Line Bred.
Hypomelanistic(hypo) – A gecko which produces less black, resulting in less spots. Similar to High Yellow, but it is thought a Hypo must have less than 10 spots and High yellow more than ten. Line bred.
Jungle – A gecko with a mixed up random pattern on its back and its tail. Similar to Aberrant but Jungles are only Jungle if their tail rings are broken, if not they are Aberrant.
Lavender – A random trait in which a gecko shows a lot of lavender colouration.
Line Bred Snow – Another snow type. Line bred for more whiter colouration.
Mack Snow – The main snow gene. It is co-dominant and Mack Snow is the heterozygous version of the gene. A Mack snow hatchling is completely black and white and can look a lot like a normal when fully grown.
Marble Eye – Still being tested. An eye trait which literally makes the eye look marble like.
Murphy Patternless – A recessive gene. A Patternless gecko is completely yellow with not pattern on the body, tail or head.
Normal – The normal dominant gene, the normal wild pattern. Yellow body with lots of Leopard like spots.
Paradox – A random occurrence in which something happens which technically shouldn’t happen on a gecko. For example an albino producing a black spot.
Patternless Stripe – A recessive gene in which the gecko is patternless and shows a clear dorsal stripe. Usually connected With Tremper Albinos and RAPTORS.
Rainwater Albino – A recessive albino gene. Generally lighter in colour but the eyes are darker than the other albino strains.
Red Stripe – A line bred trait where the gecko has 2 red stripes running down at each side of its spine.
Reverse Stripe – A gecko with a dark stripe running down the back of its body from its neck to its hind legs.
Snake Eyes – Snake Eyes is where the eye is only partially covered in solid black. There are two types of Snake eyes. Sometimes Blizzards can be born with snake eyes, it is a random occurrence and not linked at all to the Eclipse gene. The second Snake Eyes does occur from the Eclipse gene, sometimes homozygous Eclipse geckos can only have half of their eye coloured.
Stripe – Acts recessive. A trait in which the geckos body has stripes running down from the neck to tail.
Super Giant – The homozygous version of Giant. Same as Giant but even bigger and faster growing.
Super Hypo – Absolutely no spotting on the body. Comes from breeding Hypo’s to get less spotting.
Super Snow – The homozygous version of Mack Snow. A super is completely white with black spotting running down its back. A Super Snow also has completely black eyes but is not connected to the Eclipse gene.
TUG Snow – Another snow gene. Thought to be Axanthic where little to no yellow is produced. This snow gene is dominant.
Tangerine – A line bred trait in which the gecko shows orange colouration on its body.
Tremper Albino – The most common albino strain. Light grey eyes and light tan coloured patterning. Simple recessive.
White And Yellow – A trait that is still being tested. Similar to Enigma but without the negative issues.
White Side – A line bred trait, a gecko with very high white sides.
Double Trait Morphs
APTOR – Albino Patternless Tremper ORange. Tremper Albino and Patternless stripe.
Banana Blizzard – Murphy Patternless and Blizzard.
Blazing Blizzard – Any Albino Strain and Blizzard. E.g Tremper Blazing Blizzard.
BEE – Black-Eyed Enigma. Eclipse and Enigma.
Firewater – Rainwater Albino and Tangerine.
Hybino – Super Hypo and Albino.
Hypo Tangerine – A tangerine with less spotting.
Raining Red Stripe – Rainwater Albino and Red stripe.
SHT – Super Hypo Tangerine. A tangerine with no spotting.
Tangelo – Tangerine and Tremper Albino.
Also a lot of obvious ones like Mack Snow Albino, Hypo Mack snow etc. but the names are the same as the genes involved.
Triple Trait Morphs
Banana Blazing Blizzard – Murphy Patternless and Albino and Blizzard.
Black Hole – Enigma, Mack Snow and Eclipse.
Creamsicle – SHT and Mack Snow. Should also include some carrot tail.
Hyglo – Super Hypo, Tangerine and Tremper.
RADAR – Bell Albino, Eclipse and patternless stripe. Bell version of RAPTOR.
RAPTOR – Red-eyed Albino Patternless Tremper ORange. Tremper Albino, Eclipse and Patternless stripe.
SHTCT – Super Hypo, Tangerine, Carrot Tail.
SHTB – Super Hypo, Tangerine and Baldy
Super Creamsicle – Super Snow and SHT.
Typhoon – Rainwater Albino, Eclipse and Patternless Stripe. Rainwater version of RAPTOR.
Again there are obvious ones where the names are the traits, e.g. Mack Snow RAPTOR
Quadruple Trait Morphs
Aurora – Mack Snow, Rainwater Albino, Murphy Patternless and Enigma.
Diablo Blanco – Blizzard and RAPTOR (Eclipse, Tremper, Patternless Stripe).
Ember – Murphy Patternless and RAPTOR (Eclipse, Tremper, Patternless Stripe).
Nova – Enigma and RAPTOR (Eclipse, Tremper, Patternless Stripe).
Phantom – TUG Snow, Super Hypo, Tangerine and Albino. TUG Snow Sunglow.
RAPTOR Creamsicle – Super Hypo, Tangerine, Mack Snow and Eclipse. Despite being called Raptor, it doesn’t contain Tremper Albino or Patternless Stripe.
Snowglow – Super Hypo, Tangerine, Albino and Mack Snow. Mack Snow Sunglow.
Stealth – Mack Snow and RADAR (Bell Albino, Eclipse, Patternless stripe).
Sunglow – Albino and SHTCT (Super Hypo, Tangerine, Carrot Tail.
Super Aurora – Super Snow, Murphy Patternless, Rainwater Albino, Enigma.
Super RAPTOR – Super Snow and RAPTOR (Eclipse, Tremper, Patternless Stripe).
Super Stealth – Super Snow and RADAR (Bell Albino, Eclipse and Patternless Stripe)
5 Trait Morphs
Dreamsicle – Mack Snow, Enigma and RAPTOR (Eclipse, Tremper, Patternless Stripe).
Super Nova – Super Snow, Enigma, RAPTOR (Eclipse, Tremper, Patternless Stripe).
Breeder Lines
Black Velvet – Team Artlink Gecko’s Melanistic Line.
Electric – Kelli Hammock’s (HISS) strong coloured tangerine baldy line.
JBRGlow – JBR’s line of strong coloured RAPTORS.
Nieves Tangerine – David Nieves tangerine line, with a unique look.
Tangerine Tornado – The Urban Gecko’s Tangerine line. With a deep red colouring.
Others
Blue Tail – Random genetic mutation currently still being tested and re-created.
Florida Albino – Another name for Bell albino.
Las Vegas Albino – Another name for Rainwater Albino.
Texas Albino – Another name for Tremper Albino.
Wild Type – Same as Normal.
Afghan – Afghanicus, a leopard gecko sub species. Usually darker and smaller.
Fascio – Fasciolatus, another sub species.
Montanus – Another sub species.
Re: Morph section
I was thinking we could have members submit pictures of their morphs. It seems like throughout the members we have a huge range of morphs. We may not have all of them (yet), but we do have quite a few!
I could help write it, but I don't know a lot about the morphs XD
Could we use what you just wrote with the pictures?
I could help write it, but I don't know a lot about the morphs XD
Could we use what you just wrote with the pictures?
kathstew- Review Staff
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Re: Morph section
Yup you can try and get members to submit what we need if you want.
If you can match pictures to every morph i just out above then that would be great.
You can use everything i wrote above provided i get credit where due.
I'm not sure how out-dated it might be though.
If you can match pictures to every morph i just out above then that would be great.
You can use everything i wrote above provided i get credit where due.
I'm not sure how out-dated it might be though.
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