I'll get a picture of him in a little bit.
I have 2 leopard geckos.
a high colored male about 1 year and 10 months old, and an unspecified strain of 'snow', about 9 months old.
the high color is about 8 inches long.
the snow reached nearly the same size at around 6 months, whereas my high color only reached his size at 10 months.
The high color is a mellow, gentle, chubby and tame gecko, whereas the snow is a slim, muscular, skittish and aggressive gecko. he always strikes hard, to kill no matter what, and will struggle with anything he bites. (including fake leaves, paper towels, and sometimes my finger or a big cricket.) the high color strikes according to what he's biting at. if he's trying to get a mealworm or a cricket that i'm holding, he'll lick it to see what it is and then softly bite it cuz he knows it isn't going to escape, whereas a fast running cricket he will chase down and strike hard at. he's smart enough to know that a fake leaf, paper towel or my finger isn't food, and if he happens to bite that, he'll immediately latch off and pull back.
My snow hates everything that touches him. I was cleaning his cage today, and he was sitting near the spot that I was going to clean. (his substrate is paper towel, I just replace it every time I clean.) I poked him a little to get him to move, and he snapped at me, and slapped my with his tail. I poked him again as a little 'punishment' (just a little just like 'hey don't do that') and he ran off, then scratched at the place I poked him.
The point I'm trying to make here is that he's different, if you couldn't tell.
You know those little nubs on their tails? even though his tail looks skinny, those nubs are all rounded out... and if you know leopard geckos, those nubs only round out (like the tail in the pic below) when their tail is at its fattest. (well for one his tail isn't fat at all, it's all stiff muscle.)
I know there's some larger species of leopard geckos, and he's getting quite big... I also know people hybridize other species with the leopard geckos we see in captivity (e.macularius)
Anyone know anything about it?
I have 2 leopard geckos.
a high colored male about 1 year and 10 months old, and an unspecified strain of 'snow', about 9 months old.
the high color is about 8 inches long.
the snow reached nearly the same size at around 6 months, whereas my high color only reached his size at 10 months.
The high color is a mellow, gentle, chubby and tame gecko, whereas the snow is a slim, muscular, skittish and aggressive gecko. he always strikes hard, to kill no matter what, and will struggle with anything he bites. (including fake leaves, paper towels, and sometimes my finger or a big cricket.) the high color strikes according to what he's biting at. if he's trying to get a mealworm or a cricket that i'm holding, he'll lick it to see what it is and then softly bite it cuz he knows it isn't going to escape, whereas a fast running cricket he will chase down and strike hard at. he's smart enough to know that a fake leaf, paper towel or my finger isn't food, and if he happens to bite that, he'll immediately latch off and pull back.
My snow hates everything that touches him. I was cleaning his cage today, and he was sitting near the spot that I was going to clean. (his substrate is paper towel, I just replace it every time I clean.) I poked him a little to get him to move, and he snapped at me, and slapped my with his tail. I poked him again as a little 'punishment' (just a little just like 'hey don't do that') and he ran off, then scratched at the place I poked him.
The point I'm trying to make here is that he's different, if you couldn't tell.
You know those little nubs on their tails? even though his tail looks skinny, those nubs are all rounded out... and if you know leopard geckos, those nubs only round out (like the tail in the pic below) when their tail is at its fattest. (well for one his tail isn't fat at all, it's all stiff muscle.)
I know there's some larger species of leopard geckos, and he's getting quite big... I also know people hybridize other species with the leopard geckos we see in captivity (e.macularius)
Anyone know anything about it?