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RE: leucistic vs.hypomelanistic

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Posted by: jakentbc at Sun Jun 24 10:54:14 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jakentbc ]  
   

well...leucistic doesn't really exist in bearded dragons...

what people are calling a leucistic dragon is really a hypomelanistic dragon. and therefore, what people are callin a hypomelanistic dragon is mostly a normal dragon. there is a lot of "gray-area" when using the term hypomelanisim. hypo means less than. so a hypomelanistc dragon has less melanin than a "normal" dragon. I don't even know what a normal dragon would look like anymore.....too many colors mixed into the normal dragon morph.

if you breed your snow dragon (which is a hypomelanistic dragon with very small amounts of melanin) with a hypo dragon (which has a little more melanin than the snow) you will get ---> very low levels of melanin in all your babies...assuming that your hypo dragon is homozygous.
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