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I'll post a few pics of the dragons i just got today. They are from dragons den herp, I'm sure you've all heard of them. Kevin is wounderfull to do buisness with and i highly recomend dragons from him. I got a snow and a 100% het leusistic. enjoy the pics and let me know what you think. thanks.

heres the het

nice dragons...but I have a question...what does 'het' mean? The picture of the het you received looks much like a normal phase...is that what 'het' means? (or am I completely blind to the distinquishing traits of a 'het'?)

"Het" refers to heterozygous.

It is a word used when talking about recessive genes and traits.

So if it is a Het for Leucistic (which I think is used to loosely, that is the leucistic part) than that means when that normal colored dragon is bred to another het for luecistic normal colored baby, then you will get 25% of the offspring to be leucistic and the rest will be Hets. But seeing as leucistics on the markets are not really luecustics just super hypo animals (yes even Dragon Dens!)than what you really will get is some a couple nice white babies.

If a het is bred to a "leucistic" animal then you get 75 percent to be white and the rest are hets.

The reason I say there are not any (or not many at least) true leucistic beardies is because none of them are white, and stay white, they all seem to be off white, or some times turn light brown. Only when totally fired up are they totally white. If that is what you are looking for then great. Just dont be fooled.

you wont have any pure luecistic babies if you breed a het to a normal. i would have to disagree with you on kevins luecistic dragons too. have you ever seen a pic of his breeders? they are 100% white.

If you do a search on the old forum you may be able to find the discussion on them. It was told that there are no TRUE luecistics out, no matter who they come from........Just a marketed/labeled leucistic. Chris

thanks for the info on Het's. Will have to spend time some day reading the basics of breeding genetic terms...like hets etc.

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