First of all, you must see the sandfire ranch pastels and dragons den pastels as different lines.

I mean, just because they share the same name doesn't mean that they have the same genetic makeup.



As i recall correctly the sandfire ranch put the first clearnailed dragons on the market named pastel.

What follows is that some other breeders used the same name for dragons that just had less amound of dark pigment but had dark nails.



So different genetic makeup but the same label.

I think this is why kevin says that the clear nails have nothing to do with pastels.

This is true if you look at his pasteldragon line, but the sandfire ranch pastels must have clear nails.



Second: Names are names and doesn't give the genetic makeup of a dragon.

Hypomelanistic does, because it's a name that is commonly used in genetics and stands for a genetic defect to the melanophores.



There are probably a couple of fenotypic hypo's wich are no genotipic hypo's, but thats something else.

There is one type proven to be true hypomelanistic and that is the clearnaild hypo.

It doesn't matter from what breeder the hypo comes from and what nem the breeder put on it, they are true hypomelanistic

Now there could be a second type of hypo, that has dark nails and no to little dark pigment in the skin.

Don't know if tis is already has been proven yet, but it sounds like there is another type of hypomelanism out there.



What to name one type or the other is not up to me, but they are different and should not carry the same name.





Duncan
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