New and Incoming Geckos

I recently realized that although I posted on Facebook, iHerp, and the official website (which hasn’t been launched yet), I never posted here about Petra (my Toulouse x Twerp girl) who arrived last week:

Unfortunately, the flash washed her out, but once she’s had a couple weeks to settle in, I’ll get some more photos.

 

Next up is Wisconsin Chutney, who we named over an Afghani meal we had shortly after buying her in Madison:

Again, more photos after she’s settled in.

 

After talking so much about Gekkonidazed in my last post, I ended up revisiting a baby I’ve been gawping over from Atlas and Uhara. This photo is from the Salzmanns and was posted September 15. Such a creamy full dorsal and so much pattern at just two and a half grams.

When I saw him yesterday, his dorsal and lats were so bright, and he’s finally starting to lose his hatchling red and go dark (we need better gender neutral pronouns; I obviously don’t know if it’s a he).

Gekkonidazed also has a fantastic progression image of Atlas as a baby and adult, and I think I might have a little clone (though this baby may have inherited the his mother’s lovely wide dorsal).

Atlas is from a Lellarap and Akua pairing, and Uhara is from Teregus and Tiegra. I can’t wait to pick this little one up from Tinley. Until then, I’ll be thinking of names.

 

In other news, I finally louped Blue (I hadn’t been in a hurry since HYG said that they saw faint pores). He has definite pores, clear as day, in clean rows. I always had a feeling that he would be a boy and that Lyric would be a girl, and so far it’s looking that way (though it would honestly be more convenient for me to have it the other way around). We’ll see if my gut is right on some of the others; I definitely think of Dr. Venkman as a boy, and I’m hoping my little Atlas x Uhara baby is as well (though if I’m wrong on one of them, I suspect they will make a perfect pair when they are grown up).

Petra (Toulouse x Twerp)

We have finally named our incoming Toulouse x Twerp female Petra. She should arrive next Wednesday (which gives us plenty of time to set up an enclosure with new foliage and make a new lay box in case she lays some virgin duds). I’m thrilled to add this bloodline to our colony and really excited to see what she produces next year (though we likely won’t be able t pair her until July or so, what with the move, for a very short season). I’m also excited to see if she and Zazzle might produce a phenomenal male to pair with Lyric in the future. Zazzle will be first at bat until his kids are RTB, but it’d be nice to give Lyric some options if she continues not to show pores, as she is one of our greatest stars (though Petra may give her a run for a money upon arrival, when I hope to see her fired up; I promise that the camera battery will be freshly charged).

Petra unfired

Zazzle’s Future Girlfriend (Well, One of Them)

Zazzle‘s had a few lovely potential future girlfriends waiting in the wings but no one that is 100% for sure female at this time (unless we paired Creeper with him, but I’m more interested in other possibilities for her, especially as I don’t intend to breed her next season). Today, after finally selling Snapdragon to an experienced breeder who is very excited to have her, I saw my dream girl. I’ve seen similar geckos that I’ve absolutely loved, and everyone one of them has been male, but finally, I found the one, an L.A.C. Herps’ Toulouse x Twerp 29-gram female listed for sale by Scaredy Cat Geckos:

Unfired, but so much pattern and creaminess. I can’t wait to see her fired up and to see what she and Zazzle produce when they are up to weight. For now, though, she needs a name.

“Not Mine Series” – Spotlight on Nightfall Arboreals

As I’ve been taking a break from the “Not Mine Series” (I have a rough draft of creams started that I haven’t gotten around to finishing), I haven’t been highlighting other breeders as much, and I’d really like to keep doing that here. For one thing, they do the work that allows the rest of us to introduce so many wonderful lines to our collections. For another, I find that not long after I’ve posted about something I really, really like, I find an opportunity to get it (Rubia; Dr. Venkman, my coveted Chowder baby; Smuggler, my much-desired Truesilver baby, and Lyric and Blue, who fulfilled an obsession I’ve had with getting some Extreme Cresties lines).

This post is about Nightfall Arboreals, where Mark Christensen has collected the creamiest dorsals I have ever seen all in one place (and some seriously sound head structure);  where do I even begin on this?

Nightfall Arboreal’s Thanatos – Look at that creamy dorsal, those lats, and all that pattern all over the upper legs and lats. What more could you possibly ask for? (produced from Crown Jewel Reptiles?)

This guy is a Toulouse x Twerp production from LAC Herps. Check out that pattern and structure

So much creamy patterning! She is just amazing. I love his names on the whole, but this one goes over my head.

Note that each of these has the most perfect creamy white dorsum you could imagine, on top of extreme cream pattern – this is a guy who knows what he likes and knows what he brings to the table..

Let’s not forget the Creamiest, Crom

And this creamy girl, Lady Deathstrike, produced from Northern Gecko and reported to fire up black. Again – look at that head!

I cannot wait to one day get the creamiest high-pattern, big-headed, fierce-crested gecko from Mark to add to my collection, and to the Chowder and Trusilver lines in particular.

As should be clear at this point, neither these photos or these geckos belong to me.