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Welcome to Daily Animals! A blog where I write about animals that sparked my interest!

Today's topic is...

Crested Gecko Morphs!

Crested geckos are arguably one of, if not the most popular reptile on the hobby for begginers. They are adorable and (in relation to to other reptiles) on the easier spectrum in the care department. One of the reasons of their popularity and a deciding factor in choosing your gecko is their morph, basically their color pattern!

I'm passionate about crested geckos, as it was my first reptile and what brought me more into the hobby and community. Today I want to dedicate a post to this specific topic!

Morphs

The morph names are patternless, bicolor, brindle, tiger, flame, harlequin, extreme harlequin, axanthic, dalmatian and lilly white. Here are the photos correspodning to each!

Disclaimer: I honestly from the bottom of my heart would explain how genetics work but I CANNOT work it out and I read that much of the avaible information is more of a speculation than scientific research so for clarity I won't try to piece together anything 😛.

Patternless

Photo from MorphMarket

One color on the entire body with minimum/no other colors.

Bicolor

Two colors, usually: one on the back going from the head to the tail, second on the rest of the body.

Brindle

(Usually darker) jagged markings over a lighter color on the rest of the body. The markings are more broken/scattered/faint than on the Tiger morph.

Tiger

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More distinguished, fairly continous stripe pattern on the back and sides.

Flame

Flame crested geckos will have a base colour with a lighter colour along the dorsal. Flames will show little to no pattern on their laterals or limbs. Flames display one base color and one color on the dorsum. The dorsum strip is broken by the base color.

Harlequin

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Harlequin is when the pattern is distributed from the ventral side (belly) of a crested gecko up towards the dorsum. When the pattern exceeds the mid-lateral line, we generally call these Extreme Harlequins.

Axhanthic

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Axanthic is a crested gecko that is unable to create yellow pigment. Yellow pigment usually makes the tails of a gecko cream colour. Geckos such as this display only black, blue, white, grey and silver colouring.

Lilly White

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A Lilly White crested gecko is a high white crested gecko. The tail will be solid white from the base to the tip with no breakage when looking at the tail from a top view and the eyes will be a silvery grey colour.

Lily white geckos are the most likely to be born with neurological/physical issues or die prematurely. Ethical breeders discourage breeding Lilly Whites with other Lilly Whites.

Dalmatian

The Dalmatian trait is one of the most distinguished features a crested gecko can have. The unmistakable spots set these geckos apart. Most often they're black, but can be red, brown, and even green. This dominant trait passes along easily to offspring, making Dalmatians one of the easiest traits to produce.

Thank you for reading! There are more minor mixes but there is so many it wouldn't fit into one post!

Sources: Pangea (some photos, information), Morphmarket (most photos, some information), sklepaladyna.pl (one Photo)

(if there is no source the photo is from morph market)

Footnote: Despite lovinf crested geckos I never really got into the morph stuff. After alk this I still don't know what morph my gecko was, I guess a mix of a few. I would put more but there's a photo limit :(

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At the KC reptile show selling our leachie geckos #repriles #geckos #KC #leachie

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Check it out!! Now all I need are the geckos and some food for them :3 #tank #animals #repriles #geckos #leopardgecko

[snarkyblogfast]

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