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Can I keep it?

DifficultyBeginnerAdult size20–25 cmwhen adultLifespan15–20 yearsup to 25Space90×45×45 cmminimum statedActivityCrepuscularFeeding2–3 daysInsects: crickets, dubia, BSF…TemperamentDocile, hardy, easy to tameNight16–20 °CUVBLow-level recommended…
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Setup

The numbers

Thermal gradient

152025303540 °C
21–24°Cool side
31–33°Warm side
16–20°Night

Day: a real gradient, 31–33°C warm against 21–24°C cool, so the animal chooses. Night: 16–20°C.

Why

Same scale on every sheet here, so two species compare by eye.

The sheet stateswarm 31-33 °C (88-92 °F) / cool 21-24 °C (70-75 °F) / night Down to ~16-20 °C ok

Humidity

30–40%Target RH

The sheet states30-40% + humid hide 70-80%

UVB

Optionalbeneficial

The sheet statesLow-level recommended (thrives)

Part of this is not on the page we cite. We opened it on 10 Aug 2026 and some of the degrees above are not stated there. The values above may still be right, but we cannot show you where they came from, and nobody here has checked them against a second source. Anything about a sick animal goes to a qualified exotic vet, not to a page. petmd.com

14:00
Day

Drag the sun. Leopard Gecko is Crepuscular, so what it is doing changes with the light. The sheet states a night temperature, and the rail follows it.

Enclosure and conditions

Enclosure

substrate31–33 °Cwarm hidecool hidewater30–40 % RHUVB tube90 cm45 cm
warm sidewarm hidecool hidewatersubstrateUVB tube
50100150200 cm
90 × 45 × 45 cmWidth × depth × height
41dm² of floor

Drawn from the stated numbers. Only what the sheet states is drawn inside.

Why

The rectangle carries the exact width-to-height ratio of the figures above it, and the ruler under it places that width on the 0–250 cm scale every sheet here shares, so two species still compare at a glance. Nothing is added that the sheet does not name: a lamp drawn on a sheet that never mentions one would be invented equipment. What the sheet leaves out is listed rather than left blank, because an empty tank reads as « none needed ».

The sheet states90 × 45 × 45 cm (36×18×18 in)

Warm zone (hot hide)
31–33 °C (88–92 °F)
UVB (required)
Low-level recommended (thrives)
Substrate
Firm: tile / excavator clay (no loose sand for young)
Hides
3 hides (warm, cool, humid)
Water
Small shallow dish

What your climate adds

This sheet states a range to hold. Your local climate decides how much work holding it is. Pick the nearest city: nothing is sent anywhere, the choice stays in this browser.

What it needs

Enclosure at least 90 × 45 × 45 cmbecause Enclosure — 90 × 45 × 45 cm (36×18×18 in)
A heat sourcebecause Temperature — warm 31-33 °C (88-92 °F) / cool 21-24 °C (70-75 °F) / night Down to ~16-20 °C ok
A thermostat to regulate itbecause Temperature — warm 31-33 °C (88-92 °F) / cool 21-24 °C (70-75 °F) / night Down to ~16-20 °C ok
A thermometerbecause Temperature — warm 31-33 °C (88-92 °F) / cool 21-24 °C (70-75 °F) / night Down to ~16-20 °C ok
A way to check the night figurebecause Temperature — warm 31-33 °C (88-92 °F) / cool 21-24 °C (70-75 °F) / night Down to ~16-20 °C ok
A hygrometerbecause Humidity — 30–40% + humid hide 70–80%
UVB, stated as beneficial rather than requiredbecause UVB — Low-level recommended (thrives)

Every line above is deduced from a value this sheet states, and names which one. Nothing here is a general recommendation.

  • Terrarium 90×45×45
  • Heat mat + thermostat
  • Low UVB
  • 3 hides (incl. humid)
  • Tile/clay substrate
  • Calcium + D3 + multivit
  • Feeder insects
  • Thermo/hygrometer

Food

Diet

Feeding rhythm

Juvenile
every 1 d
Adult
every 2–3 d
14Meals in 28 days · adult

Twenty-eight days, one row. Each band is a meal window. This sheet states a figure for each age, so each age has its row.

Why

The windows widen as they go because the interval is a range: four meals after a 10–14 day cycle land anywhere between day 40 and day 56. A young animal's row is drawn only where the sheet gives one: working it out by dividing the adult interval would be inventing a ration.

The sheet statesInsects: crickets, dubia, BSF larvae · Every 2–3 days

Staple
Insects: crickets, dubia, BSF larvae
Prey size
≤ space between the eyes
Amount
~2 bugs per 1 in length / 15-min feed
Juveniles
Daily
Adults
Every 2–3 days
Calcium
Dust calcium (no D3) most feeds
Vitamins / D3
Multivit + Ca+D3 1–2×/week

Daily life

Behaviour and handling

HandlingTolerant; support, never grab the tail
Tail dropDrops tail if grabbed/stressed (regrows)
CohabitationBest solo; never 2 males
DefenseRarely bites
ChildrenGreat, supervised

Health

Common health problems

Metabolic bone disease
Signsweak/bent limbs, tremors
Preventsupplement Ca/D3 + provide UVB
Impaction
Signsfrom loose substrate ingestion
Preventfirm substrate + correct prey size
Dysecdysis (stuck shed)
Signsretained skin on toes/tail
Preventprovide a humid hide
Overheating / cool temps
Signslethargy, poor digestion
Preventcorrect thermal gradient

When to see a vet

This is not veterinary advice. If red flags appear, consult a qualified exotic (herp) veterinarian. Quarantine new arrivals 30–90 days.

Red flags

  • open-mouth breathing
  • months of weight loss
  • stargazing
  • persistent regurgitation

The species

Identity

Adult size

True scale, against a 1.75 m person

1.75 m20–25 cm

Logarithmic, the same axis on every sheet

1520100400 cm
20–25 cmNose to tail, adult

The size the sheet states for a grown animal.

Why

Two drawings, because they answer two questions. The silhouette is at true scale against a 1.75 m person: it says how big this animal actually is, which no number does for someone who has never seen one. The bar under it is logarithmic and shared by every sheet here, so a 2 cm isopod and a 4 m python both stay readable on the same axis and two species can be compared at a glance.

Family / Order
Eublepharidae / Squamata
Origin
Distribution
Rocky arid grassland & desert
Adult size
20–25 cm
Lifespan (captivity)
15–20 yrs (up to 25+)
Activity
Crepuscular / nocturnal; terrestrial
Temperament
Docile, hardy, easy to tame

Morphs

21 morphs, with how each one is inherited. 4 of them carry a documented welfare cost, and those come first.

Welfare risk4documented neurological defect or lethal super form
Dreamsickle (combo)comboCarries Enigma + W&Y → neuroSuper form: —Welfare risk
EnigmaDominantEnigma Syndrome — neurological (balance/circling/head-tilt). Avoid.Super form: —Welfare risk
Lemon FrostCo-dominantIridophoroma: >80% tumours (SPINT1). Discouraged.Super form: (worse in super)Welfare risk
White & YellowCo-dominantW&Y syndrome (tremors/circling) in someSuper form: —Welfare risk
No known risk17colour and pattern only
Bell AlbinoRecessiveAlbino strain 2Super form: —
Black NightLine-bredMelanistic lineSuper form: —
BlizzardRecessivePatternlessSuper form: —
Bold StripeLine-bredSuper form: —
Carrot TailLine-bredSuper form: —
Diablo Blanco (combo)comboBlizzard + Rainwater + EclipseSuper form: —
EclipseRecessiveSolid eyesSuper form: —
Gem / TUG SnowCo-dominantSuper form: —
GiantCo-dominantSize geneSuper form: Super Giant
Mack SnowCo-dominantSuper = solid-eyed Super SnowSuper form: Super Snow
Marble EyeRecessiveSuper form: —
Murphy PatternlessRecessiveSuper form: —
Rainwater AlbinoRecessiveAlbino strain 3Super form: —
RAPTOR (combo)comboTremper Albino + Eclipse + patternlessSuper form: —
Super Hypo / BaldyLine-bredSuper form: —
TangerineLine-bredLine-bred orangeSuper form: —
Tremper AlbinoRecessiveAlbino strain 1Super form: —

How common this animal is

47/100Search interest as a pet

Relative Google search interest for the species as a pet, 2020. The scale is relative within the study: 100 is the most searched reptile it measured, not a count of animals. Reptiles only, and only the species the study measured. An absent value means the study did not measure that species, not that nobody keeps it.

Valdez JW (2021), Using Google Trends to Determine Current, Past, and Future Trends in the Reptile Pet Trade, Animals 11(3):676

24,904Live individuals in declared US trade filings

NOT a measure of how many are kept. These filings count animals shipped for any purpose, including the food trade and laboratory supply, and they are United States records only. The three largest volumes in the source belong to a food frog, a bait species and the standard laboratory amphibian.

US Fish and Wildlife Service LEMIS declared wildlife import and export records, as compiled in the received dataset

Reproduction

Life course

Day 0Hatch
0.8–1 yrSexual maturity
15–20 yrLifespan in care
35–60 dIncubation
2 eggs, several clutches/seasonClutch
15 yrMinimum commitment
~14 yrReproductive window

Read from the lifespan and maturity the sheet states, for animals in care and not in the wild.

Why

The minimum commitment is the low end of that lifespan, and the reproductive window is what is left after maturity: both are subtractions on stated figures, not figures of their own. The sheet also reports a record of about 25 years; that is a reported maximum, not the range to plan for.

Sexual maturity
~9–12 months / ≥ 45 g
Sexing
♂: V-shaped preanal pores + hemipenal bulges
Clutch
2 eggs, several clutches/season
Incubation
~35–60 days; temperature sets sex
Note
26–28 °C→more ♀; 31–32 °C→more ♂

Good to know

  • Store fat in their thick tails as an energy reserve.
  • Have movable eyelids (rare among geckos) and lick their eyes clean.
  • One of the first domesticated reptiles: hundreds of morphs exist.
  • One of the first domesticated reptiles — hundreds of morphs exist.
Terrestrial · warm · dryFrom the sheet: warm end 31–33°C, humidity 30–40%

The way of life is written in this sheet, word for word. The climate words summarise the two figures above them, they do not add to them.

National law is not global, and we hold no national wildlife law for any country, Thailand included. Check your own authority before buying or selling.

Questions & sources

Common questions

Do they need UVB?

They thrive with low UVB; can manage on dietary D3.

Why did the tail fall off?

Defense: it regrows (fatter, different look).

Is sand safe?

Avoid loose sand for youngsters (impaction risk).

Going deeper

Research dossier: read at the source, not yet cross-checked by our team. Every figure links to the page it was read on.

In the wild

Natural history

Wild diet

Institutional summary
Large variety of invertebrates; occasional small mammal and seasonal flower are reported by RSPCA.

Institutional natural historyrspca.org.uk

Growth and body condition

Biology

Adult length cm

Value
17-25
Sex context
females generally smaller

Single source verifiedreptifiles.com

Captive lifespan years

Value
15-20 typical

Single source verifiedreptifiles.com

Activity

Value
crepuscular

Single source verifiedreptifiles.com

Growth

Rule
Observations are descriptive cohort baselines, NOT universal target weights.

Observations

4.4 g038.2 g300 d52.4 g400 d
Mean weight by age in one captive cohort: a description of that group, not a target weight. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Age
adult
Observed average weight g
60-75
Sample context
same captive longitudinal study; growth slows after ~400 days

Observational cohortpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Sex and growth evidence

Healthy adult study

Sample size
18
Health context
Only geckos assessed as having high-to-excellent physical and behavioural health were included; specialist reptile veterinarian assessment and parasite screening were used.
Use
Descriptive sex-specific healthy-study reference, not a diagnostic target.

Females

N
10

Weight g range

38-72

Males

N
8

Weight g range

40.5-87

Academic observationalpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Small lab sample

Caveat
Very small experimental sample and substantially lighter adult females than other cohorts; useful as evidence of variation, not as a normative curve.

Subadult

Age months
3-4
N
3

Weight g range

9.2-10.5

Adult female

Age
>1 year
N
7

Weight g range

22.3-26.9

Academic small samplepmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Sex determination

System
temperature-dependent sex determination

Academicpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Body condition

1Emaciated

No visible fat deposits; vertebral column easily visible; eyes sunken.

2Thin

Minimal fat deposits; tail straight/thin; vertebral column visible but not prominent.

3Average

Tail slightly plump; vertebral column not easily seen; abdomen slightly rounded.

4Fat

Tail fat deposits noticeably thickened; abdomen wide relative to body.

5Obese

Tail very rounded/thick; abdomen very wide relative to body.

Veterinarian-scored captive breeder cohort in Thailand

Metrics

Tail diameter
Useful longitudinal metric alongside body weight and BCS.
Note
In the Chiang Mai cohort, smaller tail diameter was significantly associated with Cryptosporidium infection/wasting; track trend rather than one absolute universal cutoff.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Telling males from females

Sexing evidence

Practical threshold
Reliable external sexing described once the gecko reaches about 5-6 in length.

Male markers

  • pre-anal pores
  • paired hemipenal bulges behind vent

Female markers

  • no obvious pre-anal pores
  • no hemipenal bulges

Specialist husbandryreptifiles.com

Health and welfare

Health and biosecurity

Cryptosporidium varanii

Infection prevalence percent
51.43
Wasting prevalence percent
20

Cohort

Animals
35
Enclosures
23
Observation months
4

Association

Wasting odds ratio
11.15
Confidence interval
1.78-69.98

Signs

  • progressive weight loss
  • tail-fat loss
  • anorexia
  • dehydration
  • diarrhea
  • abdominal swelling
  • severe muscle wasting

Veterinary researchpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Group housing signal

Finding
In one commercial breeding cohort, geckos housed with more than one individual had higher odds of wasting syndrome than individually housed geckos.
Odds ratio
13.64
Confidence interval
1.28-145.78
Caveat
Single-farm observational association; do not treat as universal causal estimate.

Observationalpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Lemon frost clinical update

Finding
Recent clinical case series describes systemic clinical complications in Lemon Frost/Super Lemon Frost animals with iridophoroma.
Cases
4

Signs

  • hyporexia
  • intermittent lethargy
  • weight loss
  • submandibular masses
  • oral plaques

Veterinary case seriespubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Husbandry risk study uk 2026

Sample size
214
Record period
2019-2023
Clinics
3

Most common diagnoses

Diagnosis
dysecdysis
Percent
29.96
Diagnosis
endoparasitic burden
Percent
10.75
Diagnosis
presumptive hypovitaminosis A
Percent
9.88

Social housing

Housed socially n
21
Musculoskeletal odds ratio
17.36
Ci95
5.50-54.74
Note
Nine group-housed cases had injuries confirmed or suspected to be due to social altercations.

Supplementary humidity

Absent n
21
Skin disorder odds ratio
3.01
Ci95
1.15-7.88

Substrate

Sand n
22
Skin disorder or vs woodchip
7.58
Ci95 vs woodchip
1.65-34.9
Skin disorder or vs paper
4.37
Ci95 vs paper
1.32-14.45
Caveat
Retrospective clinical association; not proof that every sand formulation/use causes disease.

Veterinary retrospective clinicalbvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Breeding

Reproduction intelligence

Natural clutch pattern

Clutch size eggs
2
Clutches
multiple per breeding season

Academicpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Condition tradeoff

Finding
Female reproductive effort was strongly condition-dependent in the first breeding season; egg size traded off against number of clutches.

Academicpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Laboratory seasonality

Observation
A research colony laid eggs from May to August, two eggs monthly under those laboratory conditions.
Caveat
Colony/lab schedule, not a universal captive calendar.

Academic lab observationpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Dystocia case series

Cases
3

Weights g

  • 45
  • 50
  • 52

Signals

  • anorexia
  • lethargy
  • coelomic distension
  • dehydration in some cases

Veterinary case seriespmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Breeding nutrition

Conservative rule
Female condition and calcium availability matter more than hitting a single weight threshold. KEEPR must not treat 45/50/60 g breeder thresholds as interchangeable universal health rules.

Current specialist guidance

Calcium dish
ReptiFiles notes egg-laying females as an exception where an enclosure calcium dish without D3 can be useful even when feeders are appropriately dusted.

Specialist husbandryreptifiles.com

Historical breeder practice

Feeding
Crickets at least every other day or mealworms continuously available during breeding.
Supplementation
Extra calcium and vitamin D3 offered; source describes free-choice calcium/D3 in a dish.
Breeding readiness
About 45 g and 9-10 months described as a typical minimum in that breeder article.
Caveat
Historical breeder practice, not universal veterinary standard.

Breeder practicereptilesmagazine.com

Breeder longevity and output

Breeder opinions

Finding
One breeder reported peak female breeding years around ages 2-6, often breeding a female for only two seasons depending on morph/output; another reported 3-4 seasons and possible later retirement.
Caveat
Expert opinion and husbandry philosophy, not controlled population study.

geckotime.com

Finding
One breeder reported females as reasonable producers for about four years and observed that heavy first-year producers sometimes had fewer productive seasons.
Caveat
Single breeder experience.

geckotime.com

Breeding threshold source conflict

Conclusion
No single universal breeding threshold should be encoded. Use body condition, age, individual size/morph and breeder/veterinary review.

Values

Female minimum
45 g and 9-10 months

Breeder practice

Female minimum
50-60 g / commonly >=1 year preferred

Breeder opinion

reptilesmagazine.com geckotime.com

Postlay and dystocia

Remaining gap
No strong controlled source found in this pass defining an exact universal post-lay calorie/calcium recovery protocol. Keep breeder feeding practices separate from veterinary evidence.

Normal reference

Mature female clutches per season
4-5 clutches of 2 eggs cited in the veterinary case paper
Interclutch interval
about 1 month

Veterinary literature referencepmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Dystocia case series

Recurrence
One case recurred six months after cloacoscopic egg removal and ultimately required ovariosalpingectomy.

Animals

Age years
2
Weight g
45

Signs

  • one week anorexia
  • weight loss
  • lethargy
  • dehydration
  • coelomic distension
Age years
4
Weight g
50

Signs

  • dysecdysis
  • lethargy
  • anorexia
  • coelomic distension
  • poor nutritional status
Age years
4
Weight g
52

Signs

  • two weeks anorexia
  • lethargy
  • coelomic distension

Veterinary case seriespmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Imaging reference

Finding
Prospective ultrasound study described normal anatomy in 11 healthy female leopard geckos and visualized ovarian follicles in most animals.

Veterinary prospectivepubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Light and food: the evidence

Nutrition and uvb evidence

Juvenile uvb trial

Age window
hatching to 6 months
Sample size
18
Uvb exposure
low level UVB 33-51 μW/cm²; 2 h/day in the study design
Dietary context
All animals received dietary vitamin D3.
Growth result
Growth and weight gain were similar between groups under the tested conditions.
Interpretation
Leopard geckos can synthesize vitamin D3 from UVB. In this juvenile trial, adequate dietary calcium/D3 supported normal growth without UVB, while UVB increased circulating 25(OH)D3. Do not simplify this into either 'UVB required' or 'UVB useless'.
Female reproduction gap
Potential reproductive-female benefits were explicitly identified by the authors as a future research question.

Result 25ohd3 nmol l

Uvb exposed
61 ± 20
Unexposed
38 ± 8

Academic experimentalsciencedirect.com

Housing through life

Life stage enclosure evidence

Rule
Do not invent an intermediate enclosure curve. Until better stage-specific dimensional evidence exists, retain the adult standard and mark juvenile dimensional minimum as unresolved rather than scaling it mathematically.

Adopted adult standard

Minimum cm

L
90
W
45
H
45

Specialist husbandry currentreptifiles.com

Veterinary alternative

Juvenile
10 gallon minimum
Adult
20+ gallon minimum
Adulthood
within 1-2 years
Caveat
Volume-only guidance does not specify floor dimensions and is substantially smaller than KEEPR's adopted ReptiFiles adult standard. Preserve as source conflict, not as KEEPR adult recommendation.

Veterinary source conflictpetmd.com

Genetics and morphs

Genetics

Canonical status
audit_required
Note
Do not trust uncited inheritance labels in data/knowledge/morphs.json until trait-by-trait evidence is attached.

Academic confirmed

Trait
Tremper Albino
Inheritance
recessive
Candidate gene
TYR

Academicacademic.oup.com

Trait
Rainwater Albino
Inheritance
recessive
Candidate gene
SLC24A5

Academicacademic.oup.com

Trait
Bell Albino
Inheritance
recessive
Candidate gene
OCA2

Academicacademic.oup.com

Trait
Lemon Frost
Inheritance
semi-dominant
Candidate gene
SPINT1
Welfare
serious

Academicjournals.plos.org

Existing repo traits to audit

  • Mack Snow / Super Snow
  • Eclipse
  • Blizzard
  • Murphy Patternless
  • Giant / Super Giant
  • Enigma
  • White & Yellow
  • RAPTOR
  • Diablo Blanco
  • Black Night and other line-bred/polygenic projects

Additional academic confirmed

Trait
Mack Snow / Super Snow
Inheritance
incomplete_dominant_single_locus_model
Gene
PAX7
Mutation
13-nucleotide deletion at an exon-intron boundary
Homozygous
Mack Super Snow
Heterozygous
Mack Snow
Phenotype notes
Mack Super Snow lacks/reduces xanthophores and iridophores and alters hatchling banding; heterozygous Mack Snow shows an intermediate phenotype.

Academicpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Trait
Tremper Albino
Inheritance
recessive
Candidate gene
TYR
Mutation type
missense candidate

Academic candidateacademic.oup.com

Trait
Rainwater Albino
Inheritance
recessive
Candidate gene
SLC24A5
Mutation type
disruptive premature-stop candidate

Academic candidateacademic.oup.com

Trait
Bell Albino
Inheritance
recessive
Candidate gene
OCA2
Mutation type
disruptive premature-stop candidate

Academic candidateacademic.oup.com

Hybridization and provenance

Finding
E. macularius can produce viable, fertile F1 hybrids with E. angramainyu; introgression via backcrossing is experimentally possible.

Academicpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Morph history

Trait
Tremper Albino
Historical origin
First reported albino in this line hatched in 1996 from a wild-imported female; Ron Tremper commercialized the line by 1999.
Inheritance
recessive
Molecular candidate
TYR

Breeder history plus academic geneticsreptilesmagazine.com academic.oup.com

Trait
Rainwater / Las Vegas Albino
Historical origin
Leopard Gecko Wiki records Tim Rainwater as founder in 1998.
Inheritance
recessive
Molecular candidate
SLC24A5

Specialist history plus academic geneticsleopardgeckowiki.com academic.oup.com

Trait
Bell Albino
Historical origin
Specialist genetics sources attribute discovery to Mark Bell around 1999.
Inheritance
recessive
Molecular candidate
OCA2

Academic genetics plus specialist historyacademic.oup.com reptidex.com

Trait
Mack Snow / Super Snow
Historical origin
Specialist historical records attribute the line to John and Amy Mack (Reptiles by Mack), after snow-like hatchlings appeared and were bred back to establish Mack Snow and Super Snow.
Inheritance
incomplete_dominant
Molecular gene
PAX7

Specialist history plus academic geneticsleopardgeckowiki.com pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Trait
Black Night
Historical origin
Line-bred melanistic project developed in the Netherlands by Ferry Zuurmond and Roy Sluiter from around 1997, using selective breeding over many generations.
Inheritance
polygenic_line_bred

Specialist line historyder-leopardgecko.de leopardgeckos.ch

Trait
Lemon Frost
Historical origin
Modern morph with strong welfare significance rather than merely price significance.
Inheritance
semi_dominant
Molecular gene
SPINT1
Welfare
serious_iridophoroma_risk

Academicjournals.plos.org

Trait by trait audit v2

Trait
Blizzard
Inheritance
recessive
Origin
Reported discovered/produced by Jay Villa / Prehistoric Pets in 1995 in specialist historical documentation.
Evidence class
pedigree_mendelian
Calculator allowed
yes
Note
Breeder consensus inheritance; not molecularly mapped here.

leopardgeckowiki.com allanglescreatures.com

Trait
Murphy Patternless
Inheritance
recessive
Origin
Reported originally produced by Pat Murphy in 1991.
Evidence class
pedigree_mendelian
Calculator allowed
yes
Note
Distinct from Blizzard; historical test breeding/combo production supports separate loci.

leopardgeckowiki.com allanglescreatures.com

Trait
Eclipse
Inheritance
recessive
Evidence class
pedigree_mendelian
Calculator allowed
yes
Expression
Solid eye can be variable/partial ('snake eye') in homozygous animals.
Note
Do not interpret partial eye expression as heterozygous expression.

reptidex.com leopardgeckowiki.com

Trait
Giant / Super Giant
Inheritance
incomplete_dominant in breeder consensus
Evidence class
pedigree_mendelian
Calculator allowed
yes
Note
Size itself remains continuous and influenced by sex/environment; genotype should not be inferred from body weight alone.

allanglescreatures.com

Trait
White & Yellow
Inheritance
dominant in current hobby calculators/specialist sources
Evidence class
historical_hobby_report
Calculator allowed
conditional
Welfare evidence
Neurologic 'W&Y syndrome' is widely discussed anecdotally/community-side, but this research pass did not locate strong peer-reviewed evidence establishing penetrance/cause.

community.morphmarket.com ryangstudio.com

Trait
Enigma
Inheritance
dominant in established hobby records
Evidence class
historical_hobby_report
Calculator allowed
conditional
Welfare
Serious neurological syndrome is established enough for MorphMarket to exclude the trait from supported sales, but a strong primary genetic/penetrance study was not located in this pass.

support.morphmarket.com

Naming and combo guardrails

Albino strain rule
Tremper, Rainwater/Las Vegas and Bell are independent recessive albino lines; 'albino' without strain is inadequate breeding provenance.

Banana blizzard

Canonical combo
Blizzard homozygous + Murphy Patternless homozygous
Warning
A merely yellow Blizzard should not automatically be sold as Banana Blizzard.
Verification
Because both recessive traits can be visually hard to disentangle in the combo, pedigree/test breeding may be needed.

Specialist historicalleopardgeckowiki.com

academic.oup.com

Wild-caught or captive-bred

Trade history

Foundation

Period
1960s
Fact
Entered international pet trade from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Academicsciencedirect.com

Period
foundation stock
Fact
Established commercial lines are believed to derive heavily from Karachi, Pakistan dealers, with Indian animals also contributing.

Academicsciencedirect.com

Period
1990s
Fact
Additional Pakistani animals were legally exported to Europe and the United States through much of the decade.

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Period
2000
Fact
Those Pakistani exports were reported as halted in 2000.

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Captive line provenance

Fact
A 2022 phylogeographic study found sampled pet-trade morphs in only a few shallow E. macularius clades; one Karachi-area wild haplotype matched ten pet-trade samples and other captive samples were closely related to central/southern Pakistan.

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Wild vs captive

Fact
Most pet-trade stock is captive bred, while occasional wild-collected animals have still entered trade, sometimes illegally.

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