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Project Update: TUG Snow X Halloween Mask

Posted on July 04, 2011 by Brian Hansbrow — 1 comments

It’s only year two in our TUG Snow X Halloween Mask R2 Bold project and we are already seeing some fun results. With the Halloween Mask, we expect to see erratic bold head markings that this trait is known for. With the TUG Snow, we are expecting to have a reduction in yellow pigmentation and even a reduction in spotting. The R2 Bold stripe trait produces a nice solid black stripe down the body rather than the normal banded phase. Year 1 We crossed our pure TUG Snow female with a 50 to 75% HM male.  (Click images to enlarge)… read more

Gecko Daddy Breeding Colonies

Posted on June 07, 2011 by Brian Hansbrow — 2 comments

One of the thoughts we express to each other frequently, as we are taking care of geckos, is, “This is a fun project. If we only had room, I would pair these two geckos together.” Alas, we don’t have the room. Poor guys. So, we are now excited to offer leopard gecko breeding colonies. These geckos are not only individually exceptional; they are also matched to create awesome offspring. We will be offering pairs and trios of different projects that we have been working on. Though these geckos will still be offered separately, there are a few reasons to buy… read more

March White Out

Posted on April 02, 2011 by Brian Hansbrow — 4 comments

Spring is officially here and that means nice enough weather to start shipping animals out. That also means we start getting some new animals in. New blood. New projects. Oh yeah! So, we have added a few newbies to our collection, but none more exciting than our "white out" male that we picked up from JMG. Upon openning the package, our jaws dropped and we stood there staring at this guy with a look of  OMGosh written all over our faces. This guy is a stud and we certainly have to tip our hats off to the Galewoods for producing such a specimen. It… read more

Camo Halloween Mask

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Brian Hansbrow — 4 comments

This little gecko has been fun to watch grow up. When she hatched she looked like your average bold stripe Halloween mask, but then she started getting this "junk" on her back. We have been watching her closely, trying to decide if she works into a project. She could certainly go with our rainbow stripe fella (also pictured here) or we could put her with another Halloween mask. What I really like about her is she almost looks like she is camouflaged--like a tank or something. The greens are really olive and she has some decent bolding going on. I… read more

Gecko Projects

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Brian Hansbrow — 0 comments

With the 2011 season well under way and gecko eggs coming regularly, we have created a projects page to let everyone see what we are doing here at Gecko Daddy. This is an exciting time of year with great anticipation for what we will produce--or uhh, what the geckos will produce. They do all the work! Now, the page isn't perfect yet and there are some things we haven't posted, but you'll get the idea. Best of luck to all the other breeders out there! And best of luck to the geckos! Brian read more

New Web Site Design

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Brian Hansbrow — 1 comments

So, I took advantage of some time, albeit late nights and early mornings, to redesign our site for the coming year. I wanted something that highlights our passion for geckos and their beauty. I wanted to have more opportunities to display photos and build something that can handle the projects we have coming in the year and years ahead. I'm pretty happy with the improvements. So take a look at the new design and let us know what you think. I will say that this is just the beginning, or phase 1 as we call it. We will be adding… read more

Gecko Time Article

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Brian Hansbrow — 1 comments

I guess there is a first time for everything. This week was the first time I have written for Gecko Time and they actually published it. Now you can read all about "Turning Your Gecko Hobby into an Online Business."    If you want to read articles as they are published, you can subscribe to Gecko Time and read some great stuff about gecko ownership. We have really enjoyed the articles and the amazing photos that are published. You can also become a fan of their Facebook page. Thanks to Matt and Aliza at Gecko Time for giving us the chance!… read more

Favorite Pics 2010 Vol. 2

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Brian Hansbrow — 3 comments

Well, the year is coming to an end, and that means it's time to post my favorite pics from the second half of the year. I have to admit, this has been hard to do, not because I don’t have favorites, but because I have too many. It is absolutely amazing to see the beauty in these animals. By the way, you should know that I am an amature photographer and geckos are the first and only thing I have ever photographed, so I hope you salivate over these as much as I do! The first few are from a… read more

Happy Gecko Hiding Boxes

Posted on December 11, 2010 by Brian Hansbrow — 0 comments

There are several options you can use to create a hide for your leopard or fat tailed gecko. One of the simplest is to use Tupperware. We have many juvenile geckos that are using the sandwich size Tupperware boxes. We simply cut a hole in the side and slightly burn the edges so they are smooth. You can also use a larger Tupperware and cut the hole in the top. Placing the hole in the top is nice because most of the time you can keep your crickets out of the hide. For a moist hide, fill your hide with… read more

Purchasing and Acclimating a New Gecko

Posted on December 04, 2010 by Brian Hansbrow — 0 comments

Like many other gecko breeders, at Gecko Daddy we are often asked questions about purchasing and acclimating new geckos. We are happy to respond to emails and calls whether or not the geckos were purchased from us. Below we will share a few questions that we recommend should be asked before purchasing a new gecko. We will also address some of the most common questions that we are asked by those who have recently purchased a gecko and are in the process of acclimating their new gecko.  Of course the questions reflect only a few of the most common, and… read more

Project: TUG Snow X Halloween Mask R2 Bold Stripe

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Brian Hansbrow — 1 comments

We are currently working with several leopard gecko projects. We have colonies of tangs, sunglows, patternless’, blizzards, TUG phantoms, HM (Halloween mask) R2 (stripe) bolds, emerine HM R2 bolds, and TUG HM R2 bolds. I recently did a photo shoot to capture the progress of our TUG HM R2 bold project. We started this project with our TUG snow female-Speckles and our male HM R2 bold-Boulder. SpecklesBoulder We are pretty excited as we saw our first hatchlings. The babies hatched out as either white or yellow with black or brown bands. We have held back most of our white ones to see… read more

The Reptile Super Show—Part 2

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Brian Hansbrow — 1 comments

We had a great time at the Reptile Super Show in Pamona, California on August 7th and 8th. Shows give us the chance to meet new people and share the passion of reptiles with them. They also provide the opportunity to hang out with other breeders—we love to see the projects that others are working on and were even able to make a trade or two. We picked up two really nice female tangs from Nate at Sin City Gecko. We met Nate last fall in Vegas and we knew he had great stuff, so we were hoping to see him there. We’d… read more

The Reptile Super Show

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Brian Hansbrow — 1 comments

In two weeks, on August 7th and 8th, we will be vending at the Reptile Super Show in Pamona California. We are way excited about the show. We have hundreds of geckos we will be bringing—leos of all sorts, fatties, smooth and rough knobbies, and of course we will have several cresties.   Show information can be found at the Reptile Super Show web page. If you are one of our fans, please come by and let us know and we’ll give you 10% off your purchase. Look for a follow up post about our experience! Brian   read more

Leopard Gecko Genetics—Part 2

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Brian Hansbrow — 0 comments

We previously introduced the basics of leopard gecko genetics in our post “Leopard Gecko Genetics—Part 1.” This follow-up post will introduce the concept of a double recessive—an animal that displays two recessive traits.  It’s time to dust off those biology cobwebs again! In our previous post we mentioned that the genotype is the alleles of a certain characteristic. For example we would write a genotype as YyZz. The phenotype is the way the animal appears. Though the genotype shows a het y and a het z trait, we actually see the Y and the Z. As you begin breeding leopard… read more

Sexing Leopard Geckos

Posted on July 03, 2010 by Brian Hansbrow — 3 comments

Knowing what the sex of your leopard gecko is can be extremely important. Without knowing if you have a boy or a girl, how would you even know what to name your gecko, right? Not to mention that if Sasha turns out to be a boy, then he and Zanzibar are going to have a rough go of it—males don’t like other males! Then there is that mental shift you have to make when you believe that Phil is a boy until you realize that he is really Phyllis and you never quite feel the same about him—uh, her. So,… read more

Leopard Gecko Genetics—Part 1

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Brian Hansbrow — 1 comments

Have you ever felt like you needed to be a geneticist in order to figure out the difference between one leopard gecko morph and another? Have you ever wondered why one leopard gecko may cost three times as much as another when they look virtually the same? Do you have great plans to create a new leopard gecko morph that has never been seen before? Leopard gecko breeding often requires a basic, and in some cases advanced, understanding of genetics. Good thing we all paid attention in our biology classes, right? When we understand genetics, we not only understand why a… read more

Favorite Pics 2010 Vol. 1

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Brian Hansbrow — 5 comments

Takin' pics of geckos is fun! Here are some of the good ones fom this year. This is the male sunglow holdback from last years group. We haven't named him yet, but blazin' hot is what we should call him. He is stellar! The baby next to him is one from this year that is also AMAZING. Should be a male as well. Here are two of the HM R2 Bolds we produced this year. We aren't sure what to do with these yet. They are real lookers. This could be a pair for next year.  This is a fun pic… read more

It’s a gecko evolution!

Posted on June 04, 2010 by Brian Hansbrow — 0 comments

It’s fun to watch the evolution of a gecko. The change can often be extreme. That’s one reason why we hold our animals back for so long before we sell them—it’s nice to see what you’ve got. Some geckos start out looking like they are going to be great and end up being pretty normal. Others look pretty normal and then… kapow! It’s gecko evolution!    The changes can start to show pretty quickly—like the patterns on the snows and the bolds. The snows can start to get some spotting right after the first shed. The bolds often go through… read more

The Rise of Skeletor

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Brian Hansbrow — 4 comments

So, we hatched out this odd looking gecko a few weeks ago. We posted pics on our facebook page, so you may have seen him there. He was a total surprise. We found his egg, along with that of his clutch mate, hidden in the moss of our HMR2 and Emerine pair. We had pulled eggs out of the hide that had vermiculite on several other occasions, but we never checked the moss for eggs. We happened to find the eggs nestled in the damp moss and one of the eggs was huge—I mean HUGE. So we put it in… read more

Clutch Mates—“Are we related?”

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Brian Hansbrow — 7 comments

One of the fun things about having a gecko farm is checking the ‘bator for hatchies. You never know what you are going to find. Actually, we have a good idea because we keep records and we watch hatch times and we have “due dates” marked on a calendar. But at any rate, you still never know “what” you are going to find. It’s almost like Christmas morning, or maybe Easter. In the case of some of our geckos it’s like Halloween—they are Halloween Masks you know. So, geckos lay eggs in pairs and those eggs generally hatch within a… read more

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