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hello I was wondering if anyone here could tell me what those these words mean, here they are,LEUCISTICS,HYPO,and Hypomelanistic. I was wondering if someone could tell me exactly what type of dragons these are.
I was also wondering if anyone has some breeders in mind that sell outstanding reds and oranges. if you know of any please send reply with there web site addy.
thanks peach

I asked the same question a while back. Nate gave a link to www.tkodragons.com. Good article.
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AndyD

0.0.1 Mexican Kingsnake
0.1.0 Bearded Dragon
0.1.0 Bearded Dragon (Hypo-Green)
0.1.0 Bearded Dragon (Red Phase)
0.1.0 Bearded Dragon (Hypo Red X Purple Tiger)
1.0.0 Egyptian Uromastyx
0.0.1 Frilled Dragon

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I agree with Andy, Rob from TKO Dragons wrote a really great article explaining hypomelanism on his website, you should check it out.

www.tkodragons.com
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now that it is a week since this post began....no one will read this and the post is probably dead so i'll keep it short....

hypomelanistic means: hypo means "less than" melan is the chemical compound made by skin cells the give pigment. hypomelanism isn't all that is cracked up to be. if fact i find that all people (and i mean ALL) are selling what are true normal dragons as hypomelanistics. thats because ten years ago everyone wanted color in their dragons.....now....no one wants color at all. so people mysteriously forgot what a normal dragon looked like.

but then and again hypo means "LESS" than normal, as in the pigmentation is less than normal. where in leucistics you can replace "LESS" with LACK. so, hypo means low and leucistic means lack of pigment.

oh, and by the way i am sellin hypermelanistic for $10,000 a pair.....just kidding!
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