today we're going to be showing you all of our available leopard geckos i'm here
with my friend charlie oh hello hi everyone hi everyone so great to be back so great to be back
i get to have more fun kind of focusing on the snakes charlie really enjoys working with the
geckos yeah that's true i do like working with them geckos have more of a personality than
snakes do of course of course well yeah you know like snakes are just they just hang out oh really
oh no that's true you've got some pretty personality in
uh in your snakes yeah yeah yeah i like them both but the geckos i don't know
i just like them yes so the geckos do have quite a bit of personality let's jump into
uh just showing you what we got these are all available this is female number one i'm gonna just
she's in shed right now so she's not even as bright and wonderful as she usually looks
and uh as i'm showing these geckos to you i'm gonna talk to you kind of about my
philosophy in breeding leopard geckos the way i do it my goal and what's been to plan here
as charlie said geckos do have a lot of personality and i've seen keepers that you
know have put a lot of time into their geckos and some of them will even come when called to by name
i've incubated all my leopard geckos to be female so even doing that we still kind
of end up with a male here and there but i've always just decided to breed females that way
we keep them all we raise them for about a year or two and then the largest ones we keep and the rest
of them we sell to people as pets and this is a lot of work here you can see female number two and
people talk about leopard gecko keepers and ethics and the way that they do things and
about testing for hats and basically there seems to be this category of
quality breeders and pet breeders and i kind of view myself as something in between
because i put more time into picking out beautiful geckos that have nice traits healthy animals that
don't have uh neurological issues that are good eaters are beautiful in pattern but my main
target has not been jeans as much as size i've been wanting to make the largest geckos i can
so this basically started okay here we go let's switch so female number three
so all these geckos are available so if if you do end up wanting one you just tell me hey i want
female number two or i want female number three or whatever one you want you just let me know
and i'll let you know how much it is but most of my geckos are around a hundred fifty dollars
to two hundred fifty dollars so something like this is
yeah she's around 150 bucks and you have to remember that these are not just fresh-born
babies they've been raised for a year or two they've been raised for two years so
they're healthy they're eating well here's male number one he's in shed see the bad thing about
this is that somebody had that hasn't put any work into raising animals and making sure that you know
they're good and everything could go and buy some of these and start breeding them right away
and that's that's the one crappy thing kind of about being a breeder is that you can end up
putting years as i have years into growing these uh beautiful animals making sure they're nice and
healthy and then someone can come along buy them off you and just bim uh continue and kind of jump
into your projects without really putting in that time and i really prefer my geckos going to people
as pets so yes i don't i'm not crazy about like i haven't done the head testing because in order to
do the head testing with the geckos you would have to have a gecko with each of those heads
breed and you do all sorts of breedings to uh make sure that your geckos are not carrying these heads
and for me i don't really have any desire to do that i don't want to produce
tons more geckos than i need to so i'm just being upfront with you that my main focus has from the
beginning to make beautiful large geckos so i started off by getting a what i believe
is a white and yellow tremor albino giant and this was years ago when they thought
it was co-dominant so this one was male number one he's albino and he's in shed
this is male number two and he's actually this is actually one of my favorite geckos he's super
he's super cute and he has a lot of personality i actually raised this guy at my place
but the first geckos that i bought were around 300 each so everything that i'm selling i'm actually
selling for less than what i paid for originally and you're getting like years of work put into
trying to get these geckos larger and they've been raised they're healthy they're eating well
you're not going to have any problems they're all virgins none of these have been bred
and none of them have been like fed crazily they've all been fed like normal geckos and what's
happened with the whole giant supergiant thing is that now they're being labeled as recessive
but i've talked to a few other breeders that work with them and lots of them agree with
what i think i don't think that it's a recessive trait and i don't think it's a co-dominant trait
so here we have justine from pearly leopards she's a breeder in germany that has stock from the first
giant leopard geckos the godzilla line if you've heard of that she said sure when
line-breeding tangerines for example it's the same as for giants you get around 50 quality
like the parents 30 to 40 percent lower quality or size as the parents had and about 10 percent
makes often one big male per clutch that grows better brighter and larger than the
parents because he got all the perfect genes combined in one body line breeding
same for breeding the best carrot tell black knight best diablo blanco often it's just one or
sometimes two animals from the clutch that satisfy our expectations each year i raise a super giant
male that has everything i wished for so uh you see it's not as simple as just recessive genes
it is more of a line breeding trait and this is what she has found working with the giants
as well or supergiants or whatever you want to call them and then we have sasebeck reptiles and
if you know anything about leopard geckos you gotta know sassebeck because he's one of the
first guys that really kind of like started doing all this and showing us on youtube he's basically
like the og youtube reptile breeder and i i said to him do you believe supergiant is recessive
and not just selective breeding and he said it's selective breeding and not as simple as genetic
which is exactly what i feel too i worked with them for years when they first came out and was
one of the first people to prove it was not co-dominant i said yes i figured that i feel
it's a locality thing and he said big gecko and big gecko equals more big geckos you out cross
and it's gone and i told him it's it's the only thing i've worked on for the past like six years
uh if it was a simple genetic there would be 150 gram animals of every genetic out there
if you look they're the only really big ones are the plane tramper albinos so he's also
confirming the same thing that it's not as simple as it just being genetic because if it was we
would see it everywhere and they are still popular but most people don't really know the truth about
them so that's why i wanted to share this with you i think it's something more like if you're
familiar with super dwarf reticulated pythons where that's basically just a marketing term
but certain snakes from smaller locales are smaller in size so i think that the same thing
happens with leopard geckos that the giants are not really so much like a genetic trait but more
a physical trait so that means that if you're breeding okay i forget which number female this
is would this be female number four yeah okay i think this is female number four this one is just
amazing she's super orange orange and yellow uh the the white balance on my the white balance on
my camera is showing it a little um i wonder if i can change the white balance just a sec
you know what i have the auto white balance on and it's as close as i can get to the geckos color
but um they they're they are it has a lot of lightness in it it's not as white as it looks in
the picture it's more but it's also more orange this is very orange with some yellow and green
in there but she's she's beautiful i kept her sister because she was a little bit bigger
sorry okay so this is a female number four
it could be either this is a this is a young one we're growing
this is a we're not sure the sex of this one doesn't know what to identify as yet so um
yes back to the the giant topic i believe that uh the when you get
really large geckos and you put them together you get really large geckos
and if you take a really large gecko and you breed it to a small gecko
you end up with a whole pile of just medium-sized geckos some might be a little bit larger but
even when taking the largest ones and putting them together you're not getting all large geckos so to
me that's not a recessive gene because i've worked now with these giant genes for about six years and
i have not found that they work the way that codominant genes work and they do
not work the way recessive genes work it's a lot more of you keep the largest ones
you breed those together and then you keep getting larger ones and now at the same time you don't
want to be inbreeding all the time so when it comes to breeding leopard geckos and the eyes
are closed a lot because of the light and stuff they don't really like having the light in their
i eyes if i had just lowered the light just a bit there you go you
got your eyes open a bit now not really okay next