Ok there were a few more babies that hatched these past few days.
Eublepharis macularius - Leopard Gecko
9/1/23 TSF Mack Snow Black Night
9/1/23 TSF Hypo Mack Snow Black Night
9/4/23 TSF Super Hypo OR Black Night
9/5/23 TSF Black Night
9/5/23 TSF Super Hypo OR Black Night
(This one looks weird in the photo because she’s trying to dig a little hole. She’s fine.)
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I will have to wait and see what these babies look like as they grow up. They will change so much.
(I’m just gonna say black nights instead of possible like the other posts because they are black nights. The father is a 100% pure black night. The babies are just going to be low expression. I don’t know what they will look like though.)
Also there are two that I don’t 100% know the father yet. One male is a super hypo but he had a prolapse (he’s better now) so I bred the female to the male black night just to make sure. One looks slightly more orange than the others so I just have to wait. I cannot tell yet.
They should be low expression black nights (dark morph). Some will be hypo (have fewer spots).
The black night and the hypo morphs are line bred traits. These babies won’t be pure black or pure spotless. They should look about in the middle.
Most will be raised up and bred back to a pure black night. That should produce the all black animals.
If any are actually super hypos, I might sell those ones. I just have a lot of that morph. Unless I get attached. I know I sold all my babies from 2016 and I wish I kept the one or maybe 2.
I don’t know what a hypo Mack snow black night will look like but we have a few.
I am putting my honors biology class to good use. I actually use Punnett squares in everyday life.
Mack snow is an incomplete dominant gene. Two of the moms have one copy and the dad has none so those babies have a 50/50 chance of being Mack snow. So far, the odds have been perfect. 4/4 I do have one more egg so hopefully we get 5/5 on snows.
Also here’s a line bred example: breed a dark animal to another dark animal and the baby could be even darker. There’s no dominant/recessive genes controlling that.
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Here’s the first 3 babies if anyone missed them.
8/31/23 TSF Mack Snow Black Night
8/31/23 TSF Black Night
9/1/23 TSF Hypo Mack Snow Black Night
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Some of the snows have a grayish look to them. They should be black and white but their white is grayish.
I have two more eggs in the incubator but those won’t hatch for awhile. One is from a second clutch. All the other second clutches went bad or were infertile but I have one good egg.
I used the same male so fertility was down. I think 10 is enough for this year though.
The other egg was just laid later than the rest. 4 years old and first time mom. She laid her first egg on top of a rock which went bad but there’s one good one in there. She has some good genetics so I hope that egg makes it.
I can’t wait until these babies start showing their adult coloration. They have their baby bands. They don’t get spots and colors until they mature.
I might have studied leopard gecko genetics a few years ago. Now I know why they look pretty.
TSF = Temperature Sexed Female
They should all be females. Incubated at 81° for 55/60 days. (Males are incubated at a higher temperature in less time.)
They are all named after Vocaloid characters.
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End of semester has taking a lot of my time and draining myself, so I'm not really being able to to work on my wips (specifically all my Sabezra content that's awaiting for me to finish them!!). But it's alright I guess, I'm a crazy passionate person when it comes to biology and almost all of the areas inside this subject, specially animals!! And recently I got a training class that gave me my first step on being capacitated to contain and manage wild animals properly, to perform rescues and promote safety to the animals and the people!! A few days ago I found this little dude almost drowning on my pool. We need to wear gloves when it comes to wild animals, contact with bare hands should be always avoided, but since this guy was almost dying from swallowing pool water and because of the water's temperature (they don't regulate their warmth like us, so he could die from hypothermia as well), I picked him up gently with my hands. It's not the best way to do it, so I won't recommend it! But in emergencies, if you need to act without a protection, be aware that this can have consequences, like biting!
I rescued this fellow friend from my pool and also from my curious dogs, trying to make it their snack 🥲 not sure if it's a male or female, although my friends and I noticed that it has a big belly, this can mean that can be a mama with baby eggs in her tummy! So, here it is! A Neotropical Lava Lizard (Tropidurus hispidus) rescued at my house!
Edit: I forgot to say: I released the little one (or big one? XD my friends said this lizard it's almost a crocodile lol) back into my garden, after drying it with a towel and warming up a little with light, where the lizard safely nodded at me and ran away. Happy ending! Hope I get to see new babies soon, maybe? It would be the 3rd time I watched these little ones have babies in my backyard, three months ago I found cute eggs from them and then I found small babies! I'm watching some generations here lol
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