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Okay.
i haven't been in this forum in a few months, and I just re-read a post from someone posting a 'translucent dragon'.
Where on earth did they come from?
And how are they produced?
I"m stunned.
I've seen some interested morph's in the past few years, but those, are the oddest looking things I've ever seen.
They look like rubber!
Please. Someone. Fill me in.
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Lindsay//
::Beardeddragons.ca::
lindsay@beardeddragons.ca
The translucent dragons are a form of albinism. They are missing white or have a reduction in white. I did some reasearch and to my knowledge there are no other cases of animals missing white. The irridiphores are responsible for makeing this color so technically these animals are Hypoirristic. The white is the base skin color so when you remove it the skin is transparent. The skin color in dragons is layered,white being the base,red yellow or orange next and then black on top of that. It seems that as the animals grow they tend to lose the translucence because the red,yellow,and oranges cover most of the body. The animals you have seen posted previously were produced by Sandfire Dragon Ranch. The original animals were purchased from overseas 2 years ago. The group was split in half, half bred to our Sandfire line and half to our pastel line. The resulting hets were then bred to produce the animals you've been seeing. As of now we still have not bred trans to trans. The black eyes do not seem to be directly related to the translucent mutation,they just happend to pop up at the same time. The hypo translucents I have posted are a completely different bloodline produced by myself 2 years ago. These animals are interesting because they are missing 2 out of the 3 skin colors, one step away from true albino. "almost albino"
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Paul Morlock
of CaptiveCreations and
Retail Sales Rep. for Sandfire Dragon Ranch
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Paul Morlock
of CaptiveCreations and
Retail Sales Rep. for Sandfire Dragon Ranch
This is the same animal as the previous post as a baby.
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Paul Morlock
of CaptiveCreations and
Retail Sales Rep. for Sandfire Dragon Ranch
do you breed/sell hypo translucents?
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Lindsay//
::Beardeddragons.ca::
lindsay@beardeddragons.ca
that is one CUTE picture! 
Wonderful!
And - nice to see you back!
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