We got questions about chocho a lot from our customers because some of our members are korean.
We contacted the person who found and developed chocho morph at Korea and get following information.
Following information is from his blog page and we translated from korean to english
Instagram page of chocho morph founder :
https://www.instagram.com/sunjukill/?hl=en
Recessive Morph ChoCho : CC
I’m the founder (sunjuviewonder) of the morph, the CC, and there are still a lot to discover as there aren’t that many samples yet.
When I first hatched the very first CC, I could immediately tell it is a new morph that has never been known before. The morphology and coloration were completely different from the other clutchmates. I know its parents, their parents, their parents, and their parents as well, but not any further up (no above than CC’s great-great-grandparents. None of the generations ever expressed red coloration on them. CC’s redness seems to only appear per the new morph. The characters of CC seem to be presented as far as the other morph is not the dominant no matter what you mix with, like lilly or axanthic.
Left side gecko is ChoCho and right side is clutch mate of ChoCho.
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Normal
Characteristics of the CC
There are three different coloration steps throughout the development of the CC. The base and second step shows redness, and then pink in the third. Once the color fades out, color becomes gray laterally, and red becomes more of eye-catching pink dorsally.
Proves to the New Morph?
This particular morph has its own class of character in coloration and patterns, and the inordinate uniqueness among the clutchmates. It is not a mutation as I have a total of seven geckos with constant characters so far. Considering all the newly hatched visual CCs as the F2 generation, The offspring within the F2 visual CCs all came out as the visual CCs. Mix between either one of normal, lilly, axanthic and CCs produced no CCs. Also, I recently discovered CC offspring from the lilly white 50% het CC and CC. It has a complete condition to be considered as a recessive gene. It is proven that CC is the new morph.
Stability of the Morph and Its Genetic Defects
It is very vulnerable to in-breeding. While studying the stability, I found the problem from the copulation of F2 visual CCs. A lot of embryos died while developing in the egg. Among the 14 eggs, 10 died in development, and four hatched, one couldn’t survive a month. The CC is definitely a recessive morph, and if so, it is obviously vulnerable to in-breeding. Those three successfully survived F3 visual CCs had no morphological problems, but either they are infertile or anovulate, like the problems often found in axanthics. In my experience, copulation attempts between F1 Parent x F2 offspring or F2 x F2 can result very badly, however, F2 CC with normal or lilly had no problem with 100% success rate of hatching of very healthy geckos.