yellow patternless w/ carrot tail?

[spudrikapoo]

So my gecko is a leusistic one. It's bright yellow with an orange tail that's about 1/2 that color. Here's a pic. Hopefully it's good enough.

<img src="http://www.geocities.com/spudrikapoo/viki1.jpg">

[malaysianbloods]

Nice pic, that leo is awesome, is it female or male.
Good Luck

[TLH_Wär§cöötmän]

If I am correct I do not think that there is enough/bright enough tangerine color to be considered a carrot tail, but a very nice gecko nonetheless Maybe get a pic from above to give better idea??

haha My guess is thats a male by the look of tail and head but the belly does make me wonder if female!

[spudrikapoo]

It's female. Actually the pic isn't that great, but that tail is pretty bright orange, and each time she sheds more of it turns that color. Weird.

[SnowSnake]

There isn't enough to call it carrot-tail...

She's not a leucistic... she's a Patternless.
Leucistics are solid white with black eyes (leucistic leopard geckos are called Blizzard).

Very cute! I love her face

[Mystic Lizzards]

very nice gecko but its just a patternless high yellow i hope no one sold it to u as any thing else

[spudrikapoo]

when she was younger she looked like a leusitic, so that's what we thought she would be, but nah, she didn't want to i guess.

[DragnDrop]

There are a few misconceptions about leo morphs here, so let's get them straight first.

Leucistic - there really isn't a true leucistic leo yet. Even blizzards don't cut it since they can produce melanin and don't all have blue eyes.

Leucistic used to be applied to what's now called the patternless morph. They are still called leucistic once in a while but it's not correct, and most people are now saying patternless.

Carrot-tail is technically the red at the base of the tail, but to be completely correct, it should be used with leopards that actually have the true carrot-tail genes. Almost any leo can have orange/red in the tail, but the true carrots have a particular shade of orange, very few if any faint spots in the orange and even that should be mostly towards the end of the tail where the orange fades.

Patternless leos often have orange in their tails, it's nothing new. I don't have a picture of my patternless breeders from years ago, but they had a lot of orange.
I did dig up a picture of one of the patternless albino offspring. They look quite similar to a patternless and can be confused with one quite easily. This one happens to have true carrot-tail genes from her great-grandfather (or possibly great-great-grandfather, I lost track )



The carrot-tail genes show up as a solid orange/red section at the tail base.

[spudrikapoo]

I'm not so knowledgeable about leos. Just know what I've heard from others. But what is different from the patternless albino than from mine? I'm just curious, because they look alot a like.