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sketchy4
03-06-04, 01:29 PM
this has got to be the most beautiful crested i have ever seen!
http://www.geckosetc.com/images/best_crestedorangemottle600.jpg
Rebecca
03-06-04, 02:13 PM
That's AWESOME!! Wow. I'd LOVE to own one like that!!
Naughty Nat
03-06-04, 09:51 PM
BEAUTIFUL!!! I'm jealous!!!
Spreeguy
03-07-04, 02:01 AM
nice gecko...

is it about to shed ?
Bartman
03-07-04, 02:14 AM
no i think thats the morph...looks awesome
D Healey
03-07-04, 04:16 PM
I also have one that looks identical to that one i will post some pics when i get a chance.
sketchy4
03-07-04, 04:19 PM
please do!
manville
03-07-04, 05:41 PM
it looks pretty nice
sketchy4
03-08-04, 04:41 PM
i bet hes around 500 smackers.
TheRedDragon
03-08-04, 10:07 PM
Wow! That crestie is amazing!
Emily-Fisher
03-13-04, 09:09 AM
Very pretty :) I personally prefer when the orange is darker though.. but still... very beautiful crestie!
HeatherRose
03-16-04, 03:35 PM
*looks at her beigey crested geckos and sighs*
AnthonyC
03-16-04, 03:49 PM
That's definitely a nice gecko, but being in the line of work I'm in, I have to say that the photo looks like the contrast has been cranked up a bit.
sketchy4
03-16-04, 04:05 PM
where do you see that? looks real to me.
ChokeOnSmoke
03-16-04, 04:07 PM
yeah it looks awesome
Emily doesn't Gimli kind of look like that?
AnthonyC
03-16-04, 04:33 PM
Originally posted by sketchy4
where do you see that? looks real to me.

It's the hue. The first indicator of this is that the wood is blue.
sketchy4
03-16-04, 04:39 PM
im sure you can find colored wood or dye it yourself to add some spice to your set up but i dunno. good observation. i didnt notice that till you said it lol.
Stevo26
03-16-04, 09:26 PM
look closer to the wood there are small spots where the wood shows natural color. maybe this person did dye the wood. I read an article somewhere someone (a breeder) was working on a true blue color morph so the only color they used was a shade of blue. I have a hard time believing this theory but i guess only time will tell.
HeatherRose
03-17-04, 12:50 AM
You can't really have a blue crestie, they just don't create blue pigments or something like that that sounds more sophisticated :P

A blue-hued one would be awesome though :D
AnthonyC
03-17-04, 01:52 PM
The wood hasn't been dyed. It's manzanita wood that's had the bark stripped off, and I too have had it turn out looking blue when a photo is taken in poor lighting and then I tried to correct it in Photoshop. Those are the kind of photos that I just delete.

Anyone that works with computer graphics for a living can tell that the hue/saturation/contrast are off. It could be due to poor lighting, or it could be due to manipulation in a graphics program such as Photoshop.

As for the gecko looking blue, I don't think it does. It's just that the extra blue in the photo makes it difficult to tell how much brown the animal has.

There is no such thing as a truly blue Crested Gecko. Some have a steel grey background that can appear blue in photos, but that's it. Here's an accurate photo of one of those geckos, taken in proper lighting.

http://www.acreptile.com/geckos/crested_mack_light_030404-4.jpg
sketchy4
03-17-04, 05:01 PM
beautiful crestie Anthony. is he yours?
AnthonyC
03-17-04, 06:44 PM
Yep...that's a juvie male I'm raising up for one of my breeding groups.
sketchy4
03-17-04, 06:49 PM
hes beautiful!