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Check this out. It's a solid Blue Iguana. This is the first time anywhere its been unveiled and it has been proven to be genetic. In person its much prettier than the pics. Thanks for looking....Bruce

That IS unreal. Was it bred here in the US? Wonder wat it will look like when it grows up. Awesome. Thanks for sharing!

I've seen photos of the solid blue iguanas before this and years ago owned an iguana that was 95% blue with green only on the belly (first photo). I downloaded the second photo from a post on another Iguana forum in February of 2007. The Blue is stunning but the white ones greatly intrigue me. I'm wondering if they stay healthy because it seems that the amount of UVB exposure that most normal iguanas require to stay healthy would prove detrimental to the health of these pale lizards. Do you have any idea when these animals will enter the marketplace?

Theres a picture of a blue ig like that in MK's book Iguanas for Dummies. I think it said most that were shipped back then died from resporitoy infection from being too cold durring transit.
Howard Fluker of Fluker Farms in ElSalvador shows some on the website.
http://www.reptilerepublic.com/
Flukers

Both the blue and the white one are GORGEOUS. I have never had a white one but I have kept and bred Albino Iguanas for some time now and the sun has NO effect at all on them. Like most albinos they can't see well in bright light but the sun does NO damage of any kind to them. It would be my guess that the white ones wouldn't be harmed either....TC

Hi TC,
They are awesome. I am trying to learn the terminology. What do you mean 66% poss. hets? Does that mean they are 66% albino and the rest green iguana? Also, why do you not want to sell the 66% hets without the pure ones. Is it to preserve the traits? Thanks.

TC,
Sorry, I feel stupid. I found out what that means now, does this sound right?
Possible Het. - an animal from a known breeding that has either a 50% or 66% possibility of being "heterozygous" for a mutant gene.

A 66% possible het comes from breeding 2 heterozygous animals together: 50% of the offspring are heterozygous, 25% will be homozygous, and 25% will be wild-type. Of the normal appearing animals, 66% (or roughly 2 out of 3) will actually be heterozygous for the mutated gene.

A 50% possible het comes from breeding a heterozygous animal to a wild-type animal. All of the resulting offspring will be wild-type in appearance, but 50% of them will actually be heterozygous for the mutated gene and must be bred out to determine which animals are really hets.
http://www.newenglandreptile.com/genetics_intro.html

Sorry didn't read this one first. Your right though...TC

The albino's are a result of a het. to het. breeding meaning that on the average 2 out of 3 babies will be a 100% het. Unfortunately you can not tell a het. from a normal by looking at them. That is why I say they are 66% het......TC

I do NOT have any !00% hets that I can guarantee as only 2 out of 3 are hets. I hope I'm not confusing you.....TC

Nubila,
Was that your blue color green iguana in MK's book? I think also Jim Hetfields book has a pic too. Throckmorten or something like that. Thanks