Dwarf Leopard geckos?

[GrimmyX15]

I thought if they ever bred dwar leopards gecko like bearded dragon?

Just a thought. Ever this exist.

I wish it do. lol.

Do you?

 

[lillith]

I think the closest you could get to dwarf leos are the desert banded geckos, in the Coleonyx genus. Google images of them...

I just want ONE pair!

 

[robin]

i know at one time someone was trying to make small leopard geckos (i think through line breeding) but it didnt quite work. never heard to much about it.

 

[STUTFL]

I know of one "true" dwarf leo....

 

[leoman777]

you could always talk to HJ about his dwarf he hatched out named spider

 

[STUTFL]

you could always talk to HJ about his dwarf he hatched out named spider

That's the one.

Dwarfism does come with its own range of difficulties ... I wouldn't breed *for* it, although if I just found one it'd be adorable. :tongue3:

 

[GeckoGathering]

Dwarf L.Geckos

I thought if they ever bred dwar
leopards gecko like bearded dragon?
Just a thought. Ever this exist.
I wish it do. lol.

Do you?

In 2008 I hatched a dwarf leopard gecko.
It is a rarity and the result of a defect.
She has a skeletal high where the body and
the tail meet.
I would never breed her.
Not only could it be fatal to her but in
rare cases of other dwarf hatches .....
they had short term lives.
Non dwarf, but tiny geckos, IMO could
be fatal also.
That is one of the reasons most concerned
breeders set size limits.
( talk is 55 grams but IMO that is still
quite small for the laying female.)
Take care. Hj

Some Videos of my dwarf "Spider" Here.
http://www.youtube.com/user/GECKOGATHERING

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[Bellalee]

I think actually breeding for giants in leos is like breeding for lawson's in dragons.. I don't think you could get much smaller in leos it would be unfavorable for their survival, as with bearded dragons.

I might be wrong.. I might be right.. no clue.

 

[nrich]

Lawsons Dragons also known as P.henrylawsonii (also occasionally called dwarf dragons) are a different species than the type of dragon a person would buy from a store .

Some breeders are working with Inland Bearded Dragon aka P. vitticeps (the most common dragon species in the U.S.) to make them smaller, but I beleive (although I'm not sure) more are working with lines of German Giants to create larger dragons.

 

[Bellalee]

Ahh... see I was wrong... oh well disregard what I said.. sorry

 

[robin]

no these "dwarf leopard geckos" this person was trying to "make" maxed out at about 40 grams if i remember correctly. thing is the females would get egg bound and die. even though they were smaller they had normalish sized eggs.

 

[STUTFL]

I was wondering about that ... it's like bonsai fruit trees having normal-sized flowers. :tongue3:

 

[robin]

yar it was like just a smaller than normal geeks and it would make normal sized eggs. it was not anything genetic (as far as i know)