Projects

Leopard Gecko Projects

Halloween Masks

All of our projects are fun, but there is something special about a Halloween Mask (HM). We acquired our first HMs a few years ago and immediately recognized the potential in these geckos. There is nothing quite like seeing one of these geckos in person. They are very impressive.

 It is difficult to adequately describe the unique head and body patterns that you find in a Halloween Mask. The head, or mask, has bold random markings while the body has aberrant markings that are often trichromatic—having black and grey and even elements of reddish-brown. As these geckos mature the bolding and patterning intensifies and you get that great erratic Halloween Mask look for which these animals are known.

We are working on bringing the HM trait into several other projects at this time, including the TUG HM cross and the Emerine HM cross. With the TUG HM project we are hoping to create white geckos with that signature HM pattern. Emerines have tangerine and emerald (green) hues. We are looking at getting the bold patternes into these colors as well. These projects are likely to take several years to achieve our vision, but we think it will be a fun ride.

Bolds are another morph that are truly spectacular in person, so we have also taken the boldest gecko we have and crossed it into the HM line. This is the stuff that keeps us wondering what we will see with each new hatchling.

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Tangerines and Sunglows

In our opinion, a tangerine project is a must in leopard gecko breeding. The orange and red tones found in top projects are truly spectacular. Our goal is to produce topnotch super hypo tangerines that rival the best in the industry. With so many great tangerine projects out there, we know this is a lofty goal indeed.

We have been working on our tangerine line for several years and have brought in some of the best tang blood in the industry. We are currently working with the Tangerine Tornado line, as well as Torrid and Blood Hypo lines. As we work on this project, we are looking for no spotting and a deep reddish hue throughout the head, body, and tail.

Working with tangerines takes time. As tangerines hatch they are vivid black and yellow. These colors are replaced within the first few months as the orange and red hues fill in.

A sunglow is an albino tangerine. Our sunglows are the Tremper albino strain. We are continuously complimented on the quality of sunglows we have produced. These are intense orange!

Patternless and Blizzards

There is something special about a solid white gecko with solid red eyes. A patternless leopard gecko has very little or no pattern on its body. Add some Mack snow into the mix and a little Las Vegas albino and you have the potential of producing some great looking white geckos with solid ruby red eyes. We have been working with Las Vegas albino (Rainwater) patternless Mack snows for years and in the process we have managed to produce patternless leopard geckos with various additional genetic traits—snows, super snows, and albinos.

There are two forms of this gecko that we find very attractive. The LV albino patternless super snow is as white as any gecko we have seen. They have gorgeous ruby red eyes that are almost hypnotic. Remove the albino and you have a solid grey gecko with dark black eyes; also exceptional looking.

Blizzard leopard geckos are similar in appearance to the patternless. The blizzard trait is a simple recessive trait. We have been working on diversifying our blizzard line a bit and have added the TUG snow line to the blazing blizzard Mack snow line. This has produced super snow Tremper albinos that are het for blizzard. We hope to produce blazing blizzard super snows in 2011 from this pairing.