Here is one more photo of a variation of the “Moon Eye” with Bell Albino It was noticed as well that nearly every Noir Désir eye looks different and could evolve and change its look, which makes it so special and interesting. The 2016 season started well with hatchings of two Mandarin Tangerine Noir Désir Bells out of the pairings MT Bell ND x MT Bells poss hets ND, proving both breeding females to be het for the Noir Désir trait. One of the offspring was the first to show the “Moon Eye” variation with Bell Albinos:
The following photo shows its eyes at the adult stage: The eyes have yet again changed with the development, which is visible from the following photo of the gecko: Mandarin Tangerine Noir Désir Bell Albino The eyes were something that we hadn’t seen so far with Leopard Geckos, showing a much expanded eye pupil. Mandarin Tangerine Noir Désir Moon EyesĪt the end of the 2015 season we were really excited to see the hatching of the first Albino version of MTNDBE, more correct Mandarin Tangerine Noir Désir Bell Albino, from the pairing Mandarin Tangerine Cross het Bell het NDBE x Mandarin Tangerine Cross het Bell het NDBE. The gecko was showing some typical MTND characteristics such as overall darker appearance with bands and the typical MTND eye expression.
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With the development of the babies we have realized that eyes could vary greatly in the amount of black from being full black, diffused black and also what we call “MTND Moon Eyes”. The easiest way to recognize MTNDBE babies was when they appeared darker than the clutch mate and when they had their typical semi-closed eye expression. Mandarine Tangerine Noir Désir female showing much darker overall appearance Much of this is due to impressive Mandarin Tangerine genetics but also proving that Noir Désir genetics is interacting with melanism in Leopard Geckos. With each shed they were getting darker and also the tangerine coloration was improving significantly and becoming very dark orange. Mandarine Tangerine Noir Désir Superblood Cross on the bottom with its clutch mate Our further observation of the babies showed that the majority of MTNDBE babies are hatching darker than their clutch mates or other hatchlings from the same pairings. Such results have confirmed our belief that this new morph is a simple recessive trait. In 2015 we started hatching out the babies of the Mandarin Tangerine Noir Désir Black Eyes (in short MTNDBE) from different pairings: Mandarin Tangerine Noir Désir (father – P1) with Mandarin Tangerine or Mandarin Tangerine Cross (daughters – F1) which were not expressing black eyes but were obviously hets for NDBE. The male was mainly used for breeding with other Mandarin Tangerines and some other well known tangerine lines that I had in the setups as well with some of our best Tangerine Bell Albinos. It seemed at that point that we needed to do one more test pairing (Noir Désir eyes x Marble Eyes) which we carried out later (see below). This kind of eye coloration in Leopard Geckos was somewhat similar to the Marble Eyes trait which raised some questions as to whether it could actually be the Marble Eyes. At the time it came to my attention that the eyes of the male had changed and the black had diffused so they were no longer all black. It all suggested that the Noir Désir eye trait should be a simple recessive gene but we had to wait yet one more year to see what would result from pairing the Noir Désir male with F1 generation offspring. A year later the test with the RAPTOR female proved negative: all the offspring produced were Normal –Tangerines, neither showing visible signs of Eclipse nor Tremper traits.
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We decided to test breed it with a RAPTOR female to make sure, first of all, that it was not Eclipse, and second, that it was het free of Tremper Albino. The all black eyes of Mandarin Tangerine Noir Desir maleĪs the gecko hadn’t been expressing any characteristic phenotype of Eclipse genetics other than the black eyes, I spoke to Didie and told her that we might have something new on our hands.
They were totally black and the eye expression seemed different than usual. The most intriguing for sure were his eyes.
It was very obvious that this male, Noir Désir, had the same qualities as its parents but a different, much darker overall look. This male hatched out of a superb looking Mandarin Tangerine pairing with practically full Carrot Tails. Despite knowing a lot of world renowned breeders I hadn’t found what I was looking for and my dearest friend and partner Lydie Verger – Didiegecko Aft, kindly offered me one of her hatchlings, a really nice looking Mandarin Tangerine male named Noir Désir (“Black Desire” in French). It all started in 2013 when I was frantically looking for a nice tangerine male to improve my tangerine line.
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