LEOPARD GECKO BASE MORPHS: Beginner's Guide to Leopard Gecko Genetics!! (2020) 

So how do I breed different morphs

@@kingomarioliver8765 What are you trying to know? There are certain morphs that make good pairs. Maybe ill do a video on that but if you check out all my morphs videos it shows all the top morphs and which genes are sued to make them, you can pick a design you like and try to go for it! :D here's the full playlist ru-vid.com/group/PLx8bHR1oX-dZR37sI-W1dggSWXot3cV6Y and another playlist on morphs ru-vid.com/group/PLx8bHR1oX-dbGcNuBJAPZklouMjZ5hQWQ

Thank you and I'm trying make some red orange ones and all white ones

@@kingomarioliver8765 yes great morphs! Blazzing Blizzard is all white, Tangerine is orange and also little bits of red, no one's made a pure red gecko yet, that ive seen but bright orange/red does exist. Morph Market is a great place to browse the latest of what is avaible as well as facebook pages like High End Leopard Gecko morphs to see the best of what people are currently producing :D

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IctKpHNc_Y8.html video showing you how to use morph market if u need to know :D

Righttt Yeah their eyes are soo COOL! Thanks for checking out the video and commenting! :D

Thats awesome and thanks for the comment! :D

NICEEE glad we could help TY :D

Aw, RIP. Yeah leopard geckos have TONS of combinations u can do. And in my opinion not too many. Like ball pythons is TOO many combos lol, maybe I'm biased because I'm more of a lizard guy 😋 But yeah leopard geckos are super fun. I'll have tons of cool combos and morphs next year for very affordable pricing keep me in mind 😊 Breeding usually starts late December and then we have our first babies around January February and then they continue all year haha. But ill also be releasing a Morphs Combo Video Soon, a part 2 of sorts to this video 😊😊

Thank you so much!

TY so much! We also do livestreams every monday night 7pm PST if u ever want to join :D

SAME! My favorite for sure.

thank you!

hahaha thank you thank you! :D

Thanks u so much!! :D :D

Thank you so much!!! Join us on our Monday night livestreams at 7pm PST if you ever want :D

TY Sir! Quite the compliment and appreciate you taking the time to do so! :D :D

sure thats on my list to talk about changes leopard geckos go thru. Mack snows and babies are white and black then turn light yellow /purple and some tangerines start yellow then turn green/orange

@@GeekyGeckoCreations Thanks so much, your super underrated, your videos are super good with great info, keep up the great work! 😁

@@MythicHuskii ty so much for that comment appreciate your support, and we will keep pushing forward thanks to you guys :D :D

Hm... maybe in some videos in the past im sure ive showed different quality geckos. Actually I have to make my "holdback" video, in that video I will show some amazing high yellow geckos and other colors. But please check out some other videos in our history we show a lot, even on our livestreams which are documented and recorded for rewatching, but I will def try to get some color videos up soon! Thanks for ur support and i think thats awesome you are helping to pioneer geckos in ur area! where is NZ?

yes i will thank you for the recommendation!

You too!

TY so much!!!!!

We also go live every monday night at 7pm PST to help and hang out with all leo and reptile keepers who follow us! :D

@@GeekyGeckoCreations yay I'll try to join 🥳

@@joejojo6704 TYY!!! :D :D

So, do a youtube search for leoaprd geckos and UVB, there are channels out there that focus on UVB set ups that i think can give you much better advice than myself. "Leopard Gecko" and " Jessicas Animal Friends" are two of those...I dont use UVB and there are a couple things you need to know about supplementation and stuff when using UVB vs not using it, ill leave a video link below to my video on supplementaion. as to your 2nd question, the best heat bulb will be one that gives you a hot spot of 90-100, and ambient hot side temp of around 80-85 and a cool side temp of around 75-80...This needs to be tested out with whatever tank your putting ur gecko in ahead of time so buying a heat gun from amazon or multiple reptile/fish thermometers from amazon will help you manage your heat. Does that make sense?we dont have any videos on heating elements yet because we use ambient room temperature of 85-88 throughout the day and dont use any USB or heat, that video can be checked out below as well. Please let me know if you have more quesstions and also feel free to use youtube to search out some more options as well. Room temp ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7qyGaQIYenA.html Supplements ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VhKiNescfBo.html

Yes! Junlges are so nice contraste and Snows, just AMAZING! :D

TY! Yes they are a bit different, in leos its a lot of Line Breeding combined with "Punnett square type" Mutation breeding but its a nice world of genetics to play around with glad u enjoyed! :D

Haha yes this can be normal for sure, but let us know how your experience goes!

Is a snow gecko

The 2nd gecko is a Bell or Tremper Albino, there are 3 different lineages of albino, all are different genetics and mutations and this one I am not sure if it is Tremper albino or Bell albino. Hope that helps :)

Sorry 😶 They really are ok as long as they are adults and u grab light. Its mainly the babies that will drop tails. But hey everyone has different experiences, maybe someone's adults have done that to them. But I handle all my adults frequently enough where I know they trust be being handled

When?

@@Charliemount-qc9px Hey Charlie, im in MST

When they are adults and handled regularly it should be an issue

Actually tho good video thank you😂

Yep just give them a warm spot of 95-100 and a humid hide on both ends of the tank

Right!!! :D

Great question! You got something special there. So Buddy is a normal eclipse, not an albino. When you add the albino gene to the eclipse gene you get red eyes its very cool! Now there are 3 strains or different types of albinos, the most common is "Tremper" and this will produce more of a Ruby red eye, the 2nd is "Bell" and this will produce more of a brighter red eye, and the last is "rainwater" and this will produce again a little bit more darker red eye. The Bell albino has the lightest color eyes, mostly, but as with all genetics sometimes you get outliers and its possible for Trempers to have lighter reds as well. It would be cool to see pics of ur little lady, if u get the chance! Let me know if you ever have any other questions, or if i didnt explain fully to ur understanding =D

@@GeekyGeckoCreations Thanks so much! I have an instagram account @the_littlehome_zoo which is pretty much just for my three geckos, Marzi being the Sunglow RAPTOR. I think that because she is RAPTOR she is Tremper albino, although I have no idea what Sunglow means, all I really know is that she is gorgeous, Thanks again :)

@@rayquazasawsome1657 Sorry, yes, sunglow is a term used in leopard geckos to describe a HYPO ALBINO. More specifically the HYPO is very extreme, meaning none, or almost no spotting at all just an all orange gecko...and then combine that with the albino gene, and bam, u get a very nice all orange gecko with little to no patterning :) And yes, RAPTOR stands for Red eye, Albino, Patternless, Tremper, ORange....i capitalized the letters they used to make the acronym sound cool, lol, but yes RAPTORS are albinos with the Tremper gene, RADAR is albino with the Bell gene, and Typhoon is the rainwater albino verision, it might have a nickname similar to the other 2 but i cant seem to remember or find it right now, its not as common as the other 2, yet. PS - I will check ur little gal out on ur IG :)

@@GeekyGeckoCreations Thanks again! It's just that I have never seen another gecko like her (other than her brother, although out of the two, I think she was the prettier one :P) and yes, she has very little patterning, no spots, and a very yellow base with light orang-y bands along her back, that are broken down the middle (I was never good at descriptions XD). I was hoping to maybe one day be able to breed her (I hope that i'll be able to breed leos, although i still need to wait until i'm old enough and have my own place :)). I can't thank you enough, so thanks again! Now i understand the Sunglow a bit better, RAPTOR too!!

@@rayquazasawsome1657 That makes me happy to hear! Yeah im do a "breeders set up" video in the future, it might help give you some ideas how to breed leos space wise and housing wise, depending how much room you have :) But good luck with your future projects, and Gecko on my friend! :D

What's his temps? 90-100 hot spot is good, make sure he has a dark warm humid hide to retreate to around 80-85 degrees, make sure the food is coated with calcium with d3 and reptile vitamins, if u have them, and other than that he should thrive. by the way i would try feeding him a bowl of mealworms, cheaper and geckos in captivity seem to like these WAY more than anything else, u can also try dubia roaches but mealworms is my suggestion! :D

@@GeekyGeckoCreations thank you👍👍

@@violence1354 anytime! :D

Sure, email me at geekygeckocreations@gmail.com or post the picture here :)

Wow ty for that comment Amy I appreciate that so much!!

I agree completely, first time that I'm beginning to understand....keep the videos coming !

@@tiberiomedeiros3621 TY TIBERIO! :D :D

Haha thank you! That is Zeus, my WY, hes such a sweetie :D :D

@@GeekyGeckoCreations I have a leo too. His name is Sid and we feed him dubua roaches, millworms and sometimes waxworms. He's super lazy tho 😂🦎

@@CJ-wr7wq Lol, great Leos are so cool! :D :D

@@GeekyGeckoCreations I agree. I like beardies too. I like any reptile (apart from snakes cuz you have to feed them mice and I like little rodents, they're cute)

@@CJ-wr7wq Yeah that was always the hardest part with me and snakes too. But i now keep these kind of snakes called Ribbon snakes, they survive purely on Rosy Minnows or other feeder fish from the pet store!

Thanks HaHa yeah they are!

The word Het usually refers to recessive genes, so the Mack snow is an Incomplete dominant morph, meaning one copy makes a genetic change and 2 copies makes another genetic change. That being said, Ur HET blazzing blizzard means that it is both het for Albino and het for Eclipse, each of those genes have a 50% chance to pass on to the offspring, but since with recessive genes 1 copy does not make a genetic visual change to the animals appearance u cant tell which babies have the single copy gene inside of them, unless you breed to a visual or het verison of the opposite gender. but from your crossing up top Het Albino and Het Eclipse will have a 50% chance to both pass on the offspring but you wont know which offspring have the genes inside of them and since snow is a incomplete dominant gene then only 1 copy is needed to make a visual change and 50% of the babies will be Snow! :D :D

@@GeekyGeckoCreations thank you! The breeder told me that she was het but I wasn’t completely sure what that meant. I’m trying to research WAYYY more before I begin breeding. I appreciate the information!

@@kennedybrice1993 If you filter through my last like 20 videos, you'll see 4 lessons on genetics, 4 videos on morphs, and 2 videos on breeding, plus an incubation video :D

Hi thank you for watching! Yes I agree with you, for the purpose of this video I was just trying to keep it simple for beginners and I did not have any more "normal" looking geckos so I picked this gal, but that being said, we really haven't seen much-updated pics of leopard geckos in the wild for many years I do believe that reduced spotting and pattern alteration is currently going on even in wild populations, so if we were to go to the middle east today in the wild we should find hypos, high patterns, and maybe even some morphs and combos but yes i get the point you are making and appreciate the feedback! :D

Sorry, Kevin, curly hair? Never heard of that, can you explain a little more, please? :)

@@GeekyGeckoCreations yeah probably the way we called it here is abit different, like normal gecko have like a straight tail right but 1 of mine at the very end of its tail look likes a thunder symbol (zig-zag). Sorry for bad explanation, its kinda hard to explain hahaha

@@blessedproduction6109 interesting just never heard that before. But curly tail then would be a birth defect in a way correct? Or is it considered an actual mutation desired over there? And where r u from again? :)

Thanks for your feedback, yeah I love to share and im so glad you found it useful! :D :D

Yeh they are really so cool arent they? Ima do more videos on them soon!

sure please email me at geekygeckocreations@gmail.com or message me at FB or IG :)

lol, u want the sunglow ur saying? :D

@@GeekyGeckoCreations I love the geckos with bright colours, so yes very much. Too bad money is a thing and I literally have no room. I already got to house two dogs, two hamsters, said gecko, and all it's food.

@@letsdostuff8967 haha makes sense, if your interested leos can be kept quite low maintenance if you check out any of our videos, of course you can feel free to go as extravagant as you want but speaking from a pure safety and survival perspective, they really seem to do great even with little resources. 12 qt plastric container, one side with a heat pad under it for 90 degree warmth, humid hide, food bowl, water dish, and newspaper bedding, food once a week, just about 50 mealworms for a juvile/adult and even less was grow and thats it :D

ty!

Awesome, well welcome! Do you have any pictures? you can send them here or hit me up on FB, IG, or Messenger :)

@@GeekyGeckoCreations thank you so much for responding I sent them on messenger I appreciate it

@@alejandrav6524 No Prob i will take a look now

@@alejandrav6524 Sorry, are you 100% sure you sent it to Geeky Gecko Creations? I will look again but I did not see the message. You can also email me at geekygeckocreations@gmail.com if youd like

@@GeekyGeckoCreations hey yes it has the same exact picture and name. I resent it to your email.

haha i never noticed that! U mean like the pattern? Ill have to look closer cuz i love baseball that'd be super cool! :D

@@GeekyGeckoCreations yes the red veins in his eye look like the seams on a baseball

@@johnblaha5692 Thanks man im def gonna have to look now closer!! :D :D

Oh really, any pics that sounds really cool! :)

I understand, trust me though, that distance is sooooo short that i knew it wouldnt hurt him at all. Sorry for the insensitive appearance though.

@@GeekyGeckoCreations no problem! I know you have God will for your Babies!

Good. Not god.

@@lovelyndsey4204 Haha Thank you. :) :)

Hehe yeh, not a bad typo.. ;P :D

wonderful we love tangerines!

That sounds REALLY cool, do you have any pictures?

@@GeekyGeckoCreations yep i have

@@jimzmanobie958 Post the pics if you ever get the chance! =D

sure thing which morph?

I’m looking for a blizzard morph

@@lilcar1986 I have no blizzard babies available at this time, but please feel free to check out our website www.geekygeckocreations.com for any available aniamals, also geckoc etc and gecko boa and suburban gecko might have blizzards now

Ok Thank you for your help

@@GeekyGeckoCreations I just got a blizzard baby today!!

sure here is my playlist for all 3 of my videos on combos :D ru-vid.com/group/PLx8bHR1oX-dZR37sI-W1dggSWXot3cV6Y

Also here is another palylist for my top morphs: ru-vid.com/group/PLx8bHR1oX-dbGcNuBJAPZklouMjZ5hQWQ

ty ma :D :D

Yeah sure. Blizzard is a recessive gene, so one copy needs to be passed on from the mom and one copy from the dad, so that the baby has 2 copies of the gene, only then can the blizzards display the "blizzard" look.

@@GeekyGeckoCreations i mean what can kind of morph can be mix to get blizzard

@@jimzmanobie958 Sorry are you asking what else you can mix with Blizzard? Remember Blizzard is only 2 mutated genes. 1 blizzard gene passed on from the mom and 1 blizzard gene passed on from the dad, that's it, it only takes 2 copies, or 2 genes total to create this morph. From there you can add in Albino, which will give the gecko a "whiter" appearance, and that's another 2 genes, so now 4 genes total, and you can also add in eclipse, that's another 2 genes so now 6 genes total. You can also add in snow and that's another 2 genes for a grand total of 8, but most people don't go that far with blizzard because by the time of the 6 genes it already is pretty much an all white gecko. I'm gonna do a FULL genetics video here shortly over next couple weeks, with pictures, graphs, etc, tune in for that, it will explain a lot more with visual aids =D

@@GeekyGeckoCreations i mean sir, what morph pairing can produce blizzard, coz i read it before Jay from Prehistoric Pets made the first Blizzard, correct men if im not

@@jimzmanobie958 Yeah Jay is pretty cool, i follow his channel too. I guess im still a little confused by ur question because blizzard is its own gene, it does not take different combos to make it, it is its own independent mutation.

You are correct! Yeah, look at the black nights, 11 years of inbreeding to achieve what they got going on. But Yes you'll never know the genetics of different albinos paired to each other until you test breed the babies, most people steer away from that, it can be kinda fun to guess and make predictions and then see which predictions pan out but to each their own i suppose :)

@@GeekyGeckoCreations I have bred ball pythons, odds of animals and all that is extremely fun, especially when you're dealing with 5 to 6 gene pairings lol. The problem with breeding the albinos comes later down the genetic line. Once you get a heterozygous albino in there you start getting into more random heterozygous animals and like Forest Gump days,'You never know what you're going to get'.

@@thereptiledude7247 Lol I can see how that could happen! :D

No not at all! Leopard geckos are actually one of the most CLEAN reptiles I have ever kept. Ribbon snakes, garter snakes, snakes that "musk" those will sometimes have a pee smell. :)

@@GeekyGeckoCreations okay. Thanks for answering ! You've got such beautiful geckos btw

@@reahgonzales5399 Thank you! Such kind feedback, and I appreciate ur time! =D

Thank you! :D

haha nice! both your parents must be carriers for the gene then! :D

They can, but not often

Why are their eyes so intense? Does that serve a purpose? Gwen wants to know why do they look like a snake? Alex says, why is its tail weird? Lol.

LOL 🤣🤣

@@samtj5022 Yeah their eyes are very intense with lots of blood vessels and like Marbled patterning, I can't say why that is per se, but tell Gwen they are "dusk" hunters when the light is low quality so maybe all those blood vessels in their eyes create a kind of "marbled" pattern visually when we look at them, but also help the gecko see in low light conditions...and as for Alex, HAHA, yes! A lot of people think their tails are funny too =P but they are actually functionally "wide" because they store nutrients in their tail so that when they cant get food in the wild, they can absorb that nutrition from their tails into their bodies for food! 😊😊

@@GeekyGeckoCreations thanks for the informative follow up 💖

@@samtj5022 Yeh! U always got the best questions between u 3! Love it 😄😄

Yeh I will def try to single out the Murphys as time goes on, personally I have no Murphys I choose to keep Blizzard instead which is pretty close but they are both great genes. Murphys can pair good with Black night, Tangerine, albino, snow, and WY would be my top picks. Yes I am sorry to stress you out about the tail, but I assure you the tail is very solid as adults and I would NEVER handle a baby this way. For telling the gender of females you have to lift the tail over and over again and you get used to it, you hold firm, but you don't squeeze, hold it lightly in your hand and ive never had one even come clsoe to dropping it, their tail is very secure and I am very gentle, feeling the geckos every move if he/she gets stressed and releasing the tail right away and putting the gecko down gently. But thanks for ur support and ill def try to get some MP stuff in the future! :D

@@GeekyGeckoCreations I appreciate your reply. I’ve also been doing more research about my gecko. I really can’t tell what morph she is. She’s either a patternless or a midnight blizzard. Normally when patternless are babies they have patterns that eventually go away. She was a baby when I got her and still isn’t fully grown yet but she’s always been without a pattern. Just a straight dark purple. Sometimes it’s darker and other times it’s paler even when she isn’t entering shed. It’s kinda hard to tell what she is exactly. I wish I could find out definitively.

@@GeekyGeckoCreations if you wanna wait for her to get a bit older then maybe I could show her to you and see what you think. I’ve seen pics of ones that look similar but still can’t tell if she’s patternless or a blizzard. I’ve never seen a leopard gecko that looks just like her.

@@graphitenotwo Yeh for sure send me pictures of her now as a baby that will help to FB, IG, or email at geekygeckocreations@gmail.com

@@graphitenotwo Yeh for sure send me pictures of her now as a baby that will help to FB, IG, or email at geekygeckocreations@gmail.com

geekygeckocreations.com shows the species we work with but this year we are taking a strategic holdback year because we want to turn all our babies in high quality breeders for next year to have lots! :D

Darn well I’ll be on the wait for you to open her back up

@@Milo_Rivera_A TY appreciate that! :D ill definitely be making announcements thru the year on the live streams and videos to let everyone know updates as well :)

man, i bet lolol i hear tokays are no joke! :P

niceee yeah i want to get more into bell one day as well! Hey that rymes lol :D

@@GeekyGeckoCreations 🤣👍

@@GeekyGeckoCreations when I’m older I would love to breed leopard geckos they are dope! What would happen if u breed a bell albino to a tangerine

@@rhysmyers6025 Yeah great hobby! Bell is one of the 3 types of albinos in leopard geckos. All 3 are different mutations and cannot combine with each other to produce visual albinos. Albino is a Recessive mutation meaning it takes 1 copy to pass from the dad and mom each to get a visual albino animal. So if you bred a tangerine non bell to a bell gecko, you'd get all tangerine 100% HET Bells, which means each baby carries 1 copy of the gene but is not a visual albino since albino requires 2 copies. I have 4 genetic videos on my channel explaining genetics pretty well check em out if you want :) Goodday :D

@@rhysmyers6025 Thank u :D :D

those r very cool, needed in the hobby :D :D

Thank you! Yes I was aware of the Lemon frost issues as well as the Enigma issues but never saw any issues with WY. I heard one time someone mention it but never seen any videos or anything on their side effects.

Ive heard from some people they have neurological dissorders but with the right care I'm sure they will do fine!

@@chrisherrala4121 Yeah I remember when I first got into leopard geckos, I didn't hear anything about WY problems, but then recently I was scrolling or watching some video, and I remember hearing some one say that WY has problems but mainly if u breed the WY back to the WY again creating a super form. But then again I've only heard this one time in my few years of research now, so it's possible maybe some people have had issues with the WY gene, but its also possible maybe the problems in those geckos that those people were referring to could have been caused by other genetic genes or defects already present in the geckos DNA. I have a few WY leopard geckos now, my one adult and some of his babies, no issues that I can see so far, a matter of fact probably the calmest gecko I have in my collection is a Juvie WY that I noticed this year was noticeably calmer than all other baby leos and adult leos ove had in the past so thats cool cu I love to document new knowledge and observations. But believe me, if I notice a problem with WY ill def mention it on my channel, because I love to inform, educate, and document my experiences for others to learn from when I can, so thanks for bringing the whole topic up so I can be that much more aware of my observations towards the gene 😁🦎🦎

Oh that's great thank you! Im not an expert on the subject either and you've probably done way more research then me when it comes to morphs.😁

@@chrisherrala4121 That's the great thing about an hobby too is that there is always more to learn and new experiences to be documented, especially when dealing with Live Animals 😁😁🦎🐍

hahha, she must be "recessive" for blue, carrying 1 or some copies of the gene :D

@@GeekyGeckoCreations I looked at a Punnett square chart and it appears 50/50 chance to go either way. My r and her r made it happen. And same with my son of course. Most of my side had blue eyes so there’s that too.

lol i know it looks nerve racking but when youve handled them for long periods of time, you can know how to handle them without hurting/concerning tail drops. I made a video about holding them by the tail here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JZlZeCyi3yg.html

yes please show me them on facebook or instgram @geeky gecko creations pleaseeeeee

haha interesting comment, good challenge :D

Yeah correct we do, your right public relations has been growing! =) We just cannot export, to my knowledge out of a lot of the countries that contain the leopard gecko species over there, at the moment. But with continual work I'm hoping one day they will open trade back up! :D :D

Sorry what is not true? Thanks :D