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I was looking at her today, and the pigment is looking brighter. You can also see her iris pretty well. The uv really brings out the blue in the eye. Josh

Wow the Yellow/Orange pigment is really coming out on her face. I remember when she was a baby she was like blue jelly!! I really wish I would of taken a pic at the show.

Thanks,
Randy
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what makes a translucent a translucent? obviously they look a bit different but how do you tell when they are hatched? i have done a little research on them but dont find a whole lot on them, and what i do find doesnt make much sense. are they a kind of "accident" that happened or is it a gene thing or what?
they do look cool, i wish i could get ahold of a pair

Transluscents are basically dragons that lack white pigment.It's a recessive trait like hypopastels, but it's super variable. The offspring can come out any number of ways. Some may have white faces and heads with trans bodies, or have white scattered all throughout the body. Some have no white at all. These are the ones that throw out weird colors like the blues, purples, and greens. If you notice, the purple one has zero white. Some hatch with blue eyes, some change over as they mature. Others even have one blue eye, one normal. Every one is unique. Thanks, Josh

Here is an example of one with a little white pigment on the face. Thanks, Josh

thanks for the info. they look very different, but love em. wish i could get ahold of one or 2 but i can imagine they are expensive. out of curiousity, how does this happen? is it healthy? do they live just as long as a normal dragon? can you breed to trans and have the babies healthy? thanks, Judson

As far as I know the origional trans form Germany are still alive and doing well at six years of age. Those origional trans look no where near as healthy as the ones being produced now. As with breeding any mutation it is best to use hets. I highly reccomend outcrossing trans to different dragons and breeding those hets together. You can breed trans to trans, but you are only pushing the morph in a backwards direction. Almost all of the trans that I have produced have either come from semi-unrelated hets or double hets. Thanks, Josh

Nice lookimg dragon Josh!

ITs really good to see these looking so healthy
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