Ssthisto WalkingDeath DancingLight ([info]ssthisto) wrote,
@ 2006-05-13 09:50:00
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Hello, Sunshine!
Well...


Our first hatchling of the year.

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[info]cuprohastes
2006-05-13 11:22 am UTC (link)
Congrats. What is it?

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[info]ssthisto
2006-05-13 11:48 am UTC (link)
She's a baby leopard gecko.

Probably a 'hypomelanistic' which means that instead of being yellow/white with black spots all over, she'll be yellow/white with a spotty head, spotty tail, and just a few or no spots between shoulder and hip.

The yellowish bulges you see behind her are her 'sisters' (at least, I assume they'll all hatch female...)

I just wish that the first baby of the year would have been one we could justify KEEPING. We've already got two years' worth of first-babies-who-were-hypomelanistic, so I can't justify another one!

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[info]cuprohastes
2006-05-13 11:59 am UTC (link)
Cool. I don't know much about lizards... I assume Hypermellanistic would mean she'd be a lot darker with more spots, or totally black?

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[info]ssthisto
2006-05-13 05:10 pm UTC (link)
Yes, a hypermelanistic (though it'd be shortened to 'melanistic') animal would have a darker, muddy ground colour and a higher spot density. There hasn't been a verified solid-black adult animal yet... but boy, I'd love to have one.

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[info]keithsdragons
2006-05-13 04:31 pm UTC (link)
But they're so cute! How old are they when you sell them?

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[info]ssthisto
2006-05-13 05:10 pm UTC (link)
I won't sell any on until they're visually sexable as male or female, which means hanging on to them for two or three months.

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[info]jalen_dragon
2006-05-13 05:16 pm UTC (link)
Yay! Glad to see you're still up and kicking. New babies, of any sort, are always wonderful. ^^ Reminds me a bit of when my mom was breeding cats... the kittens always just made me light up.

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[info]oboreruhito
2006-05-13 07:41 pm UTC (link)
Welcome, baby gecko!

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[info]nexaris
2006-05-13 10:41 pm UTC (link)
Congratulations on the baby gecko!

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[info]komm_susser_tod
2006-05-14 12:39 am UTC (link)
How many geckos does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

None, geckos don't screw in a lightbulb. They screw in a vivarium.

But still, congratulations! Are they still living in our lovingly-crafted masterpiece of wood and glass, or do they have a more up-market home now?

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[info]ssthisto
2006-05-14 08:52 am UTC (link)
They've gone upmarket *grins* They've got a much larger masterpiece of wood and glass lovingly hand-crafted by a professional, and our own masterpiece has been taken to bits and transformed magically into a rack system for rearing babies.

But there's a new swearingly and screamingly and shoutingly masterpiece to come - a 72 inch by 30 inch by 35 inch vivarium for our family's second-newest acquisition, Domino. Domino is three feet long and only half grown... and this is she.

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[info]steelwing
2006-05-14 02:49 am UTC (link)
Gecko! Very cute. :>

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[info]mauvekat
2006-05-18 01:43 pm UTC (link)
They are very cute dearling- congrates on the babies.

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