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Chewbecca
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Joined: 19 Feb 2010
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 Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:48 pm Post subject: My geckos. :) |
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Alright, here are some pics of my geckos. I'll type the name and morph for each of them.
All my geckos are named either after a song, a name mentioned in a song, or a musician.
This is Piper (Piper at the Gates of Dawn-Pink Floyd). She's a Revere Stripe Tremper albino and she's 66% het RAPTOR.
This is Isobel (song by Bjork). She is the same morph as Piper, only she's 100% het RAPTOR.
This is Professor Orye (character in a Nick Cave song). He's my prettiest baby, and if I picked my favorite by looks alone, he'd be it. I LOVE him. He's an Enigma that is 66% het RAPTOR and 100% het Eclipse.
This is Godzuki (song by Sufjan Stevens). He's a Tremper Enigma 100% het RAPTOR.
This is Joplin (after Janis Joplin). She's a Super Hypo Tangerine Carrot Tail Baldy.
This is Cotten (after folk musician, Elizabeth Cotten). She's a high yellow. She was the first gecko I bought for myself. Cotten earned herself the nickname "Rotten Cotten" because she was HELL when I first got her. She took FOREVER to settle into her new home, and she used to run out of her hide and try to attack the temp gun whenever I would check temps in her enclosure.
This is Major Tom (Space Oddity- David Bowie). He's one of the normal het for nothing babies that I produced last year. This year I'll be breeding my normal het nothing geckos because the leopard gecko gene pool needs some cleaning up since it's so messed up due to all the morphs they have now.
This is Aladdin Sane (David Bowie song). Because he IS insane.
Crazy gecko.
I need to get recent shots of Jethro, my bell albino. And my four other normal het nothing 9 year old adults, Monkey, Bear, Ursula, and Lizzie.
Here's my rhacodactylus geckos:
This is Re-loo (a phrase from Joanna Newsom's "This side of the Blue").
She's a gargoyle gecko.
She's the devil. But I love her anyway.
This is Meddle (Pink Floyd album). She's a crested gecko. She's very shy, so I do not get many pics of her.
This is Ummagumma (Pink Floyd album). She's also a Crested Gecko.
This is Eli Chimbley (combination of songs by The Decemberists). Crested Gecko.
This is Hunky Dory (David Bowie album). Crested Gecko.
And this is my Crackity Jones. He was my first crested gecko.
This was Crackity Jones as a wee gecko. This picture won me a really nice incubator.
It's also one of the cutest pictures I think I've ever manage to take.
He reminds me of the baby from that tv show "Dinosaurs", you know, "I'm the baby!!!"
He had JUST gotten done eating. We used to hand feed him when he was a baby.
This is Pablo Honey (Radiohead album) my Rhacodactylus chahoua. He's all big now, but he was the most precious baby.
He's a professional bug hunter. He hunts better than ANY of my other geckos.
He takes his bugs SERIOUSLY.
And this is Svet, I've post his picture before. He's my pride and joy gecko.
He's beautiful.
I have 5 leos that I didn't post pics of.
I'm tired. |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow, I loved looking at your geckos!!! |
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StellaLeigh
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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Seriously cool reptile kids!
I love the names Pablo Honey is a great album!
I love the music theme for the names tres cool.
I think gekos are soo very cool too watch.
I nearly got hit in the face once by a very large Iguanas tail so behind glass for me is a good distance, or of course on someone else.
I am such a sissy.
But they are such neat critters, your pics are fantastic! |
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ladydaisy
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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wow, you have quite a collection of Geckos! Great pictures!
I love, Love that picture of the one that looks like the baby dinosaur! How adorable!! |
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hlboyz
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Joined: 10 Jan 2006
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Location: Paradise
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| Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:59 am Post subject: |
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Loved all the pics, info and names! Thanks for accomdating us even if we wore ya out!  So much fun to peek in on the land o' geckos. Oh, and that Crackity was such a cute itty bitty - great shot! |
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Ups N Downs
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Location: Whoville
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| Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:38 am Post subject: |
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Thats a great collection! I'm sticking to just 2-3 Leos as I don't have time for many more with the dog and the horse.
Thanks for sharing!! |
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cesarmonkey
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WOW WOW WOW - these are such amazing pics and you have such a neat gaggle of geckos!! LOL - don't know what a group is called - herd? Gaggle? Posse? LOL they are all so unique and so pretty looking. Would love to see pics of the rest when you're up to it.
And, what does het Raptor or het Eclipse mean? |
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ColleenT
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Location: Poconos USA
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| Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:41 am Post subject: |
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| Nice Rhacs! I used to breed Crested Gex, but now i have none. Just my 2 dogs and my Horse. |
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Chewbecca
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Thanks, guys!!!
"Het" stands for heterozygous. It's a carried, but unseen gene, that geckos pass on to their offspring. It determines what morph you will get during breeding.
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achin4nakies
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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Thanks so much for the pics Chew!!!
I am learning so much about these little guys. I didn't know there were "crested" ones, reminds me of our little puppers
Oh and the shot of the teeny tiny little guy, you are bang on, that does look like baby from the Dinosaur Show You deserved to win that incubator that is for sure!!!
Anne along with Ruby, Pipp and Lilli |
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Ali
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Location: ONT.CA
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| Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 8:45 am Post subject: |
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| I love yours, they are so thick!!! |
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morag
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| Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:16 am Post subject: |
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| Wow they are beautiful |
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maxtmill
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| Wow - those are some pretty guys! Prof. Orye looks like he is staring right into the camera. And little Crackity Jones is a doll! I used to have a group of skinks MANY years ago, but all they did was bury themselves in the sand - their enclosure looked empty! And I had 1 iguana, which I didn't like too much. Are you a breeder of these little guys? Please tell us (or PM me) what they are like as pets, & how difficult to care for. A friend of mine had some lovely bearded dragons who loved to be held - they were very soft, & not at all jitterly or slimey as some folks think. She gave them away when she got pregnant due to worrying about salmonella. Again, your critters are sweet! |
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haircrazie016
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| i love them! they are so pretty some of those colors are really neat! but my favorites are the ones with the white spotty heads and tails! they are too cute! they look like they have freckles! lol |
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Yu-jiemomma
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| Well I think they are gorgeous absolutely gorgeous |
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Shell
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This has seriously made my day!!
What's with lizzard smile's? They are the most happy looking little critters. I LOVE them!! xoxo |
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Chewbecca
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Thanks, guys!
Not hard to care for, really.
Rhacs do not need additional heating source, but leopard geckos do.
Rhacs have a few more cage accessories that leopard geckos do not need.
Leopard geckos are insectivores, while rhacs easily survive off Crested Gecko Diet.
I do LOVE my geckos a ton.
But, honestly?
They are not the most interactive creatures.
Don't get me wrong, they definitely CAN sit calmly or whatever, and look at you, but they'll never prefer human interaction.
I get that from my dog. |
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CricketsMom
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| Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:32 pm Post subject: how pretty |
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| They are all soooo beautiful! Thanks for sharing the pictures with us. |
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jennie_c_d
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| They are BEAUTIFUL and sound really, REALLY cool!!! That's something I might like to have. I loooove Bearded Dragons, but they are a little too interactive. More than I have time for, with the feeding, exersizing, veggies, proteins, bugs, and the poop |
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kuku4cresties
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I find them to be so cute!I used to have a gecko when I was little, buy my mom was tired of buying it crickets, so she said it "ran away". 
I wasn't too happy for a while after that! |
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