C2 Cream Tiger Dalmatian
This project is the accidental result of my
C2 Cream-on-Cream project and in my opinion. When
picking the most pale colored females I could for my original male C2,
I also chose a group of three females that didn't have a flame (dorsal) pattern.
My reasoning was that these females wouldn't have any dorsal pattern (broken,
non-cream, etc.) to compete with the perfect, unbroken cream pattern of C2.
While I did produce a lot of babies with a
perfectly solid cream pattern, these pairings also produced a number of geckos
with no cream dorsal pattern at all. Normally, these Patternless/Tiger offspring
would be sold to customers who wanted them for projects kinda like this
one...something where they needed females without patterns, etc.
As hatchlings, they looked a little
different...In fact, remember first really noticing them when I was
packing geckos to take with me to a show. At that age, they didn't look
too out of the ordinary, but there were two and they looked eerily similar.
I wasn't sure there was anything going on, but I decided to pull these geckos
out and set them aside, just in case. As they grew, I began to realize
that I had hit the jackpot not once, but twice with that same male.
As they grew, these little pale yellow colored Tigers took on an incredibly
clean cream coloration. Before they were even breedable, they had become
far more attractive than than any Tiger or Dalmatian I had ever seen and at that
point, I knew there was something to them.
These geckos wound up being two males, which I
quickly paired with several unrelated females that look similar to their
mothers...very pale with no real pattern to speak of.
I knew that producing a couple of cool geckos
didn't necessarily mean anything, so the following year (2007), I decided to try
breeding these geckos to two unrelated females that resembled their mothers and
a third that had a little more yellow. The rest, as they say is history.
This project is now entering its second generation and I can't even begin to
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Unique Color
What makes this line different from
light tan or pale yellow crested geckos is that they're so incredibly clean that
they seem to glow at times. The color is perfectly clean, to a point that
it almost looks painted on. These geckos also display a number of thin
brown Tiger markings black Dalmatian spots. which compliment the extremely light
base color just right.
Even without a crazy pinstripe or flame
pattern, these geckos are simply stunning. With just a couple photos of
one male on my 2008 Photo Project page, this project has already captured the
interest of countless hobbyists. Everyone wanted to know where that crazy
cream colored Tiger came from...and now they know.
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