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So about 3 months ago I bought this awesome red/orange male trans leather. I just loved him and his color. Planning to use him for my red projects! Well last week I went into the "dragon room" to check and see if he had shed out since he was in a full body shed for a little while and got a very big shock! My red/orange dragon turned purple! I just couldn't believe it. After talking with the breeder none of his siblings have done this. The only reference I had to another dragon doing this that looks very similar was "RAZ" produced by Steven at Bloodbank. So I talked with Steven and he informed me that is does occur once in a while and is most likely a paradox form of the translucent gene! So it was an exciting week for us and I thought I would share it. The three pictures are of him now and when he was 7 weeks old Enjoy

-Amy
CalicoDragons.com

Wow that is amazing. If you decide to sell him let me know. Ive been looking for one like that. If not and you breed ghim let me know when they are available. Who did you get him from?

Chris

send me an email if you do
petabm@yahoo.com

Great pics. Looking forward to watching this girl grow. I bet Raz would like a centerfold spread of this hottie.

BBD

He was produced by Corky at DiamondDen. I talked with his wife and she said that they had kept a bunch of his siblings until recently and only just olds off the last sibling 2 weeks ago. To her knowledge none of the ones they sold have done this. But she did also say that they have another clutch from the same pairing coming up. IM sure she will be looking for this to occur with any of them. From what I have been told it seems to happen very rarely though and you can't really tell by any traits (like in my case) that they will just completely change like that. Honestly I was upset at first. I loved his red/orange and he had such intensity to him. But after talking with some other breeders ive come to realize how lucky I am! He will still give me pretty red/orange babies as well as being a very nice leatherback and trans. And Honoo is also 100% het for hypo! So he is a complete package We plan to keep him. Once he gets older I have a few girls I would love to pair him with and it would be fun bring him to some shows to show people our odd purple dragon!
-Amy
CalicoDragons.com

Hes awesome ! You should breed him to a hypo or het hypo girl that has killer sidebars. The babies could be lavander with purple sidebars! How incredible would that be?!

Ya! I can think of a lot of awesome possibilities! But it will all depend on what girl's we have ready when he is large enough to breed for us. He is only around 3 months old so we have a little while yet to go.
Thanks
-Amy

Steven would have to verify but I believe this is a picture of Raz when he was very young...

Steven's Image:

The rest are pictures Ive taken of him:

younger here

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Update! Just thought I would show how he is still lossing his ornage colors and has now gone almost 100% purple!

looking awesome!!!
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