Yellow Crested Geckos for sale in the UK
Yellow describes the bright ground colour of a crested gecko, which ranges from pale cream-yellow to vivid gold under a cream or white pattern. Because yellow can also describe pattern, you should read the whole title. Old yellows may fade while young yellows might take months to settle, so judge a fired-up adult.
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About the Yellow gene
Yellow is a colour word on a crested gecko listing. It usually names the base colour, which is one of the three primary bases of the species along with red and black. Keepers buy yellows to get a bright, clean ground colour under pale pattern. Because the same word also appears in pattern descriptions, read the whole title before deciding what the animal is.
Appearance
Yellow crested geckos range from a vivid gold to a pale, almost cream yellow. Because yellow-based animals have little dark pigment, the best ones have a clean, almost hypo look, and the hypo trait makes them even lighter. The pattern on a yellow is white or cream: the yellow base renders an orange harlequin or flame pattern white, and any rare orange patterning fades to cream over time. To check against a high-coverage harlequin, look at the chin and the front of the front legs, where a yellow is white or yellow and a harlequin is uncoloured or dark. Strong tigering can break up the yellow, and tiger yellows are sold as such.
Wait until an animal is fired-up to judge colour. A young yellow can take most of its first year to settle since hatchlings do not have their adult colour. Many yellows fade in old age toward a rust or lavender tone, so an old faded yellow is easily taken for another base. The name Citrus came out of AC Reptiles' work on yellow-orange and bright yellow animals with very little dark pigment, and it is still used for yellows with that clean look.
Rather than the base, yellow can also be the pattern colour, such as the yellow in a tricolour's markings or a red harlequin with a red base and yellow pattern. You will see Yellow Harlequin on listings, and it can mean either.
Genetics
Because Yellow and Pos Yellow are labels for colour instead of a proven gene, a Yellow tag describes the look of the animal and says nothing about what it carries. Yellow Base is the page for the base colour itself, which behaves as a dominant. Yellow and red expressed together can give an orange base. Yellow occurs naturally in wild crested geckos, so no first year or originator is on record.