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RE: leucistic vs.hypomelanistic

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Posted by: jakentbc at Mon Jun 25 09:20:50 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jakentbc ]  
   

yeah...your snow white is what others are calling leucistic, or what some people are calling 'marketed leucistic', and what is actually a hypomelanistic. I would stay away from anything labeled as a het, unless you are going for some crazy new morph. Especially if you don't know or trust the breeder, your het will most likely be a normal. I've seen pictures on this forum that owners have said their dragon is a hypomelanistic dragon and it has more dark pigment than a normal dragon i had years ago and I paid $15 for mine.

i believe that a true leucistic dragon, if it was cold, it wouldn't be able to darken its pigment to attempt to warm up. But, that may be a different mechanism that's not a part of melanin.
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