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alan
10-27-04, 05:31 PM
The pinstripe cresties are the ones that has bright lateral crests, but what about the ones that has their fire pattern blended into one straight line? I thought those look pretty awesome, is there a name for those? Or they are still under the fire category?
CDN-Cresties
10-27-04, 06:00 PM
Im not to clear on what your trying to say, do you have a pic?
HeatherRose
10-27-04, 07:11 PM
Like this? (This one is a fire.)

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/2852Crestie2.jpg

Like this? (This one is a 'chevron back'.)

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/2852Crestie-med.jpg

or Like this? (this one is a bicolour.)

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/2852Crestie2_002.jpg

All these pictures were scanned from the Rhac book...Hope it helped

I'd sell my left kidney for the one in the first pic...

-Heather
damzookeeper
10-27-04, 07:43 PM
hmm, since the book says they are very rare, you'd probably have to sell your left kidney. lol. But wow, that one is a looker isn't it! Now I need to get me that book! Who is the author? :D
CDN-Cresties
10-27-04, 08:00 PM
Id give away my first born for that crestie!!!
HeatherRose
10-27-04, 08:31 PM
Id give away my first born for that crestie!!!

Oh, me too...but I only have a kidney :p

Deb!!! It's only the greatest book ever...Rhacodactylus, by Phillipe de Vosjoli, Frank Fast, Allen Repashy. My copy was purchased from Anthony C, at www.acreptiles.com ...

I highly recommend you get it from him ;)

Go now, I'll wait... :p

-Heather
CDN-Cresties
10-27-04, 09:15 PM
Yeah I dont have one either but in the future, I would make that trade off :P
alan
10-28-04, 02:41 AM
Yup, like the first one. Most fire cresties have patterns on their fire backs. What if all the patterns are blended together to form one straight line?
HeatherRose
10-28-04, 03:25 AM
Super-super-blended-super-fire Crestie morph? :D

I haven't seen a picture of one like that, but I'm sure it's possible. Who knows what selective breeding can achieve. I certainly would give up any spare body parts I had laying around ...*shifty eyes*...for one of those :p It'd be absolutely stunning.

-Heather
alan
10-28-04, 04:45 AM
For sure it's possible. The one on the book is almost like that and I saw a few from Anthony C's website that are even more so. I originally thought those are the striped morph everyone was talking about but found out I was wrong. :P
alan
10-28-04, 04:48 AM
By the way, Anthony is selling one like that for $100 US only. I'll buy it in a heartbeat if I am living down in the states. :D
damzookeeper
10-28-04, 05:31 AM
Originally posted by HeatherRose

Go now, I'll wait... :p

-Heather

lol, thanks Heather. I've got to go to work now, but I book marked it to check it when I get back. I have never been to his site so that will definately be a treat. And for sure I'm going to order it! Thanks again. :D
Deb.
DragnDrop
10-28-04, 08:17 AM
Originally posted by alan
Yup, like the first one. Most fire cresties have patterns on their fire backs. What if all the patterns are blended together to form one straight line?

Like this one?

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/511/321red_fire_cili.jpg

I never thought of it before, I just call her a fire morph.
alan
10-28-04, 12:39 PM
Something like that, nice red too, gotta love them. :D

Here's a photo from AC's site (without his permission, btw ;) ) to show you more clearly what I am talking about.

http://www.acreptiles.com/avail/avail_ciliatus/Sep04/CG-AC1-3f.jpg

That's almost 90% patterness on its fire back.
CDN-Cresties
10-28-04, 12:53 PM
I think you are refering to bicolour. For instance if that pic you posted had no pattarn on the limbs and none on side of the body, then it would be a bicolour morph.
HeatherRose
10-28-04, 01:37 PM
Hilde, you have got to stop posting pictures of that female! She's officially my favourite coloured crested gecko :D

As for the bicolour issue...I'm not sure, most of the bicolours I've seen have been pretty (for the lack of a better word) lame. I have one, and she's just beige with an olive-coloured back, just like the one in the picture I posted above.

I honestly think that the one you posted from Anthony's website is a fire, or possibly a pinstripe because the fire pattern closer to the head doesn't bleed into the body colour like the bottom of the fire pattern does. (I'm really not sure on this, and could be and am probably wrong. Maybe pinstriping has to be white...not sure!)

Come to think of it, I'm dumb. There's a picture MUCH more like that one you posted in the Rhacodactylus book. It's only a little less solid, the breaks in pattern are also on the middle of the back as on the lower back. But it's solid at the top of the back. It's described as a fire.

Perhaps it's a mixed trait. :p

I bet you Anthony comes on here and says "Heather, it's just a fire, you geek!"

I've rambled enough!

-Heather
CDN-Cresties
10-28-04, 06:17 PM
Yeah that gecko of Anthony is a fire/harlequin...everythings so darn subjective. But If you have two colours on a gecko one that is solid running down the middle of the body and the other colour all over the rest of the body, its a bicolour, high contrast bicolours are awesome!
alan
10-30-04, 02:17 AM
I am not totally sold on the bicolour idea. The color on the middle of the body of the one I talked about actually turned from selective breeding cresties with more solid fire traits. I do agree with you though, high contrast "bicolours" do look much better than other bicolours. :)