acidburn01
Sub-Adult Member
- Beardie name(s)
- Toothless
What makes a dragon a visual morph.?As a rule you shouldn't breed two visuals of any morph. It's better to breed two hets, or a het and a visual. Two leatherbacks for instance will produce silkies. Personally i think causing silkies is cruel and unethical. Two vusual trans supposedly can cause serious birth defects. I've read two visual hypos are ok, but i don't know if that is accurate.
So, Nova is an orange/red het hypo tiger with blue bar and Toothless is a het hypo(novas breeder said he was) and were pretty sure a tiger and he's got blue bars and is mixed with standard beardie. Would there be any issues if they bred together, like there would be with others.?If you can see the morph. Leatherback for instance is visual. Hypo you can see the clear nails as an indicator, translucent will "usually" exhibit solid black eye (but not always), dunners will have haphazard scaling, and the chevrons on their tail will have a broken pattern or even be spots. Some traits like dunner or co-dominate Leatherback only takes the gene from one parent to be displayed so those two are fairly easy, either they are or they aren't. Translucent can be harder because if they don't have the black eyes the trait could be overlooked. Hypo is a bit easier, even one nail with the black stripe disqualifies a beardie as hypo.
I should have been more specific about that.Yes, you can breed those , don't keep them together though. Do you have pics of the pretty pair ?
About breeding 2 leatherbacks, I don't know that anyone would do that nowadays. BTW they would produce some silkies but also some normals and some leatherbacks in every clutch, not all silkies.
You can expect hypo blue bar tigers out of that pairing (some) if you have even one hypo then you have proven out both beardies as het hypo, (hypo is recessive and take the gentics from both parents to be displayed visually) if you get no hypos then one or both are not het for hypo (or you've got really bad luck) at that point you would have to breed each to a known hypo to know who has or don't have the gene.So, Nova is an orange/red het hypo tiger with blue bar and Toothless is a het hypo(novas breeder said he was) and were pretty sure a tiger and he's got blue bars and is mixed with standard beardie. Would there be any issues if they bred together, like there would be with others.?
Oh for sure, my beef with silkies is most keepers won't have the time, knowledge, or desire to put the work into them require and deserve.I agree. I only mentioned that last part so it's not misunderstood and repeated but hopefully no one is breeding them anyway. If someone does own a silkie they are still welcome on the forums, too.
Sure do. The one with their legs sprawled on the table is Nova, she swears she can burrow through glass. The other two of the big one is Toothless thinking he's a cat and curling up around his tail and the other of him burrowing his face cause hims a sleepy boi.Yes, you can breed those , don't keep them together though. Do you have pics of the pretty pair ?
About breeding 2 leatherbacks, I don't know that anyone would do that nowadays. BTW they would produce some silkies but also some normals and some leatherbacks in every clutch, not all silkies.
Here's probably a better photo of Toothless. He's got such an interesting pattern, it looks like the way oilspills look on driveways, with the circles of different colorsYes, you can breed those , don't keep them together though. Do you have pics of the pretty pair ?
About breeding 2 leatherbacks, I don't know that anyone would do that nowadays. BTW they would produce some silkies but also some normals and some leatherbacks in every clutch, not all silkies.
Nova is a bright orange/red and Toothless is almost a yellow/green. In the photo of Nova, you can see where she's in the middle of a shed, half her back is still dark. They're definitely big. Toothless is almost 9 months at 20 inches and 580g and Nova is like 18-19 inches and is 599g. We got Nova from a breeder on morphmarket in October and Toothless at petco in september when he was only 3ish months old. They've both flourished so much.Those are some big dragons ! Is Nova brighter or is Toothless going to shed ? Did you get them from a specific breeder ?
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