- Hey, good morning, everybody,
and welcome to the blog.
I hope to start your day is amazing.
You know, a lot of people have been telling me lately,
I haven't been showing leopard geckos enough love,
and you know what?
I'm gonna be honest with you.
I think I don't show them enough love,
because they are truly amazing.
This is one of my Leopard Gecko,
exhibits here at the Rep Terrarium,
and we have a little Super Snow right here,
This guy is absolutely wonderful.
This is one the animals I take to all my educational shows
because it's just so cool.
And you know,
when you're talking about a pet lizard,
there's no doubt that leopard geckos rank up right up there
with any other lizard,
especially when you just get going into reptiles,
because not only are they relatively easy to care for,
but they're super plastic.
They come in a ton of different colors.
You can kind of get whatever you want,
but I wanna go over before I start showing,
you some awesome leopard geckos, how we keep them.
This is just our basic cage here had the rep terrarium.
They have a lot of areas that they can climb off on,
and trust me, they spend a lot of time.
It's just a matter of fact, this crevice right here.
A lot of times I find them there.
They love to climb.
There's no doubt about it.
So giving them little rocks to climb is a good thing.
Of course, we have this little hiding box right here.
That is just again,
another little rock and it has a little hole in it,
so they can go and hide in there.
Then basically we have a water dish because Hey, listen,
animals need water.
Although I know a lot of people that keep Leopard Geckos
will say they never drink water.
So I don't even give them water.
But Hey, I put water with them.
Cause I think that's the way it is.
- But one of the things that makes them so cool,
is that ease of care.
Basically what we have is a hotspot,
of about 90 to 92 degrees, right over here.
Now they can climb up.
They can bask.
They can get in here.
They can go hide over here in the cool spot,
over here on this side of the cage, we've got 82 degrees.
So again, hot spot, 92 cold spot, 82 degrees.
Now they don't really need UVB.
Although we do provide UVB because they're nocturnal,
oftentimes people don't use the UVB,
which is make some even a little bit better to keep.
And then other than that for us,
we actually just feed them mealworms and superworms.
You can feed them cockroaches.
You can feed them crickets,
all that other stuff, but we just use mealworms.
And superworms what's really important is the vitamin part.
These guys can get what they call NBD,
which is metabolic bone disease.
So we wanna take a vitamin supplement,
and a calcium supplement.
What we'll do is we'll take three parts,
of the vitamin supplant.
We use a product called BNA,
You can use any multivitamin,
and then we mix one part of calcium,
and then we just literally dust the superworms.
Then ultimately we just put the Superworms,
in the enclosure and that's it.
So we always keep super worms in the enclosure with dust on
them 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and that's it.
So they are absolutely incredible animals.
They are great pets,
if you ever wanna get into leopard geckos.
And again, they come in a lot of colors and trust me.
We produce a lot of really cool ones.
And like I mentioned,
we produced some pretty cool leopard geckos.
Of course, Jessica is the one that's really responsible,
for all of them.
To be honest with you,
I get a chance, the kids kind of come in here,
and admire them every now and then.
And there are some beauties starting with this animal here,
which I really liked.
This is actually a max snow Murphy's pattern lists.
Now that max snow, of course is incomplete dominant,
has a super version, which is really cool.
And then the Murphy's patternless,
this is actually a recessive mutation,
and you put them together,
it just has that kind of really cool gray look to it.
It's got some yellows that come through,
just I think is a really cool mutation.
I love the combination of those two animals.
Probably my favorite of the Murphy's patternless,
to be honest with you.
So this guy has grown up pretty cool and looking awesome.
This is a cute little monkey right here.
This is actually a white and yellow,
super hypo max, no eclipse.
And this actually comes from what we call,
Our Pied Face Group.
So a lot of these come out with like pied faces,
which is pretty cool,
which is something that you see with the eclipse,
and the super snow of course.
So nevertheless, this guy's really cool.
Can't wait to see what it grows up to.
Cause this is looking like it's gonna be pretty awesome.
(chuckles)
Look at this little dude right here.
This of course is a bold bell, which is the bell albino.
Of course, there's three types of albinos,
all incompatible with one another,
but the belts are kind of my favorite to be honest with you.
And this is actually a bold Val and it's also a yellow.
So the white and yellow with the bell stuff is ridiculous.
Then you put that bold pattern into it
and wow, look at that thing just glow.
hoo, doggy.
That thing is beautiful.
And speaking of those three albinos,
this is one of the ones that is kind of the most uncommon,
which is called a Rainwater Albino,
but this is a Max No Rainwater.
So there's a Tremper, there's the Belt.
And then there's the Rainwater.
And like I'd mentioned the rainwater just aren't out there
as much, but weirdly enough,
all of them look pretty similar, but they're incompatible.
So if you breathe any of them together,
you're getting all normal animals,
and that's something you don't wanna do.
So you always wanna know what lineages are ,
is that tramper, it's a bell, it's a rainwater,
that way you don't accidentally breed it to another albino,
produce a bunch of normals that are hat,
because then you're never going to know what the lineage is.
Nevertheless,
it's cool that we are working with some rainwater stuff,
and we do keep all our stuff very separate.
I want to highlight a few of the products.
We're really working hard on kind of the unique projects
that we have going on here.
This is kind of one of the original animals,
that we call a Dark Line,
which is just a really dark leopard gecko.
But when we started breeding them,
they started popping out some really cool offspring.
I mean, we've been doing these for the last,
maybe three to four years
and really some of the offspring are absolutely amazing,
but it started really with animals,
that look just like this one.
So here's one of the babies,
that actually came from the dark line,
but this is actually a Super Snow version of the Dark Line.
So it's pretty cool to mix the two dark animals together.
Super snows are already pretty dark obviously,
but then you get that dark line
and it just gives it a little bit more pattern.
It gives it a little bit more oomph,
and absolutely cool animals.
Can't wait to see what these things look like,
when they get older.
And then this is actually kind of a more classic example,
of that dark line that really city kind of chocolatey ,
really dark looking animal.
Absolutely incredible.
Love the pattern on it.
Again, they have super dark eyes.
I mean, just overall, really cool.
So again, we have high hopes for this project,
as we continue to work and over the next five, six years,
we might be able to come up with some pretty awesome
Austrian from this stock.
One of the things in the leopard gecko world,
people really love is crazy patterns.
And this of course is a bold jungle,
but it has this really bizarre patterning his back.
This kind of tic tacky,
almost like a highway down the road type of look.
It's just really cool.
So we're always going to hold on to these types of projects,
raise them up and hopefully one day we can actually
reproduce animals that look just like this.
So it's pretty cool.
This is a kind of, a fresh star for a brand new project,
that we're gonna be working on here.
This is another project,
that we just started working on a couple of years ago.
We're calling it the IMG, because as a baby,
it kind of looked normal.
And then as it got older,
it started increasing melanin,
had kitties blotches of black pigment on it.
We don't know if it's going to be inherent
or not have no clue.
So we have a few of its offspring from this year,
for the very first time.
They don't look that different,
but Hey, it's hopefully to start with something really cool
because it's a really neat looking leopard gecko.
That animal actually looked just like this as a baby.
Believe it or not.
So we don't know if this is gonna end up getting that
increasing melanin gene or not,
to be totally honest with you.
But again, it looked just like this.
And then at about a year old,
it started to really change a lot.
So this is one of the offspring.
So we're gonna raise it up.
Hopefully we'll see some changes here,
in the next six, seven months,
and maybe there'll be something genetic,
that we can breed out and actually prove this thing genetic,
that would breed pretty rad.
Then this is definitely one of my favorites for sure.
This is the Dalmatian project,
where it literally looks like a Dalmatian dog.
Again, it's just a, you white and yellow, super snow.
That's just kind of reduced pattern.
But the fact is it looks so cool with that.
White with those little black dots all over it,
put a cute little face on it saw,
definitely a project I love.
We've been producing these for the last few years.
We're gonna just keep on kind of refining it,
until we can release some of these here,
in the next couple of years.
This little guy here is actually a sun glowed Tremper.
So basically a sun glowed,
is a super hypo Tremper Alpine albino.
And this one just has a lot of orange in it.
That just makes it look absolutely wonderful.
I mean that character tail is really, really cool.
Again, that's a apologetically bred thing.
So basically each generation,
you're breeding like orange animals,
trying to get them more and more orange each time.
And this one's going to turn out to be really, really good.
when it comes to leopard geckos,
I'm kind of prone to the dark stuff.
I just think it's absolutely incredible.
And this one has one of the craziest patterns,
I've ever seen on a leopard gecko.
This is actually a max snow eclipse,
but it's got a wild pattern.
And again,
you just don't see the pattern jumbled up like that.
And the contrast is keeping so good.
A lot of times as leopard geckos get older,
the contrast kind of fades a little bit,
but this one is already getting some size to it,
and it still looks absolutely breathtaking.
I mean this thing definitely top five leopard geckos,
that we own for sure, as far as I'm concerned.
This is actually a really interesting color,
and pattern animal.
This is actually a super hypo bell,
that has some bold Stripe on it,
but it doesn't have the orange.
It's more yellowy with white on it,
which I find pretty interesting.
A lot of the bell stuff is pretty orange.
This is kind of the opposite direction,
which it makes it kind of unique and interesting,
definitely a really beautiful animal.
And he's a squirmy little monkey.
I seem to always highlight a lot of bell stuff,
because it's just so beautiful.
This again is another bold bell,
but you could just see the difference in these guys.
Again, everyone is very unique.
Some have more purple,
some have more orange, some have more yellow.
Like the one that we showed earlier,
this is kind of a really classic wide Stripe,
bold pattern striping down its back,
but still has some of the orange and the carrot tail.
Still has that kind of overall belt look to it.
So this one is definitely, really beautiful.
And again, as they get bigger,
they hold it pretty well,
compared to a lot of other leopard gecko.
So this is gonna be gorgeous as an adult.
As you guys know,
the rep tariff is always expanding,
and we're talking about doing 3.0 next door,
and obviously where the leopard geckos are,
are not going to be there.
It's going to be part of the rep harem here,
If the expansion happens.
The fact, is that we did make room for them downstairs,
in the new colubrid room.
Also going to be a colubrid room as well.
So we're gonna continue on working with leopard geckos
because they really are truly amazing pets,
probably streamline a little bit,
really work with projects that we're super excited about,
and continue to polly genetically breed them,
because with leopard geckos,
the interesting thing is,
there's some incomplete, dominant stuff.
There's some recessive stuff,
but a lot of it is actually polly genic,
which is just line bred for cool things.
So we're definitely going to kind of really refine,
our geckos over the next 12, 18 months,
so that we're working with projects,
that are just rockstar projects.
But again, we're not gonna stop working with leopard geckos,
cause they really are amazing pet reptiles.
Weirdly enough
I always say that I liked the dark morph animals,
but another one that I always love,
are the ones that are solid white.
And again this is actually a white and yellow Super Raptor,
and you can just see those red eyes,
in that solid white body.
There's just something about that is just so cool.
Cause it's kind of almost like reminds me of,
a black I lose cystic ball Python,
or a black eye Lou cystic retake, but in a leopard gecko.
But again it's not really a loose cystic,
because it's actually a white and yellow Super Rafter,
but nevertheless, super awesome animal.
This thing is awesome.
It almost reminds me of like an ocelot,
or something like that.
The pattern is so cool.
It's just literally a crazy pattern jungle, Mac Snow.
That's all he's got going on.
It does have eclipse in it.
It also has possible heck blizzard in it,
but look at the tail as well.
I love the fact that the tail has that kind of white Stripe
down it, that looks really cool.
And then, like I said,
it's got that kind of ocelot pattern down his back.
That is one cool animal and the blue eyes who talk,
I tell you that thing is a ripper.
I absolutely love this project that we're working on.
This is actually just a Mac, snow, white and yellow,
but it's like a super hypo version of it.
So it has like mainly white,
which is a handful of dots.
We've been working with these kinds of dalmatian animals,
like this that are absolutely incredible.
Love the contrast.
I mean, that thing is so cool.
I love this animal.
This little dude here is actually a Sun Glow Raptor.
Actually pretty cool,
now a lot of Raptors actually are patternless
that's what the P actually stands for,
but there actually are some that aren't patternless,
which is a little bit weird.
This one's pretty much patternless,
with the exception of a little bit of dotting on its head.
Again, you can breathe this into some nice orange lines
and this thing is going to be absolutely ridiculous.
And then this is actually a little max no Raptor as well.
So you can see you add that max node to it.
And it just changes the color tremendously.
And we've had a lot of beautiful leopard geckos,
hatch this year.
This is just a small portion of it.
And I wanted you guys to get your leopard gecko fix.
So we definitely showed you some of the highlights of 2020,
but trust me, there are hundreds and hundreds more,
that we have that are absolutely ridiculous.
Look how cute they are.
So a bunch of you guys asked for a leopard gecko video,
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for those of you that love leopard geckos.
You're gonna love it,
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