Color

[Celestialdragons]

I see a lot of focus on genetic crosses for morphs. Hypo x het hypo trans..etc. has any one seen a breakdown of purely color blends? I know a lot of selective breeding programs breed like to like to enhance whatever color they are trying to create. But has anyone had or seen a breakdown of colors possible from completely different color spectrums? i.e. Zero or wits crossed with true red ( not just patterned) or like the new ' super citrus' with red or white? Was just wondering how colors are passed from parents to offspring. Do they hold true? Or do they create various shades of mixed blending of the parents? Just wondering because I have never seen anything that ever looked at just the color .

 

[AHBD]

Hi there....with most color phases you get a mix of what the parents are if they are total different colors, but the closer the color + more intense it is of course the truer the color will be. What has been called " super citrus " is just a term that's been around for a long time, usually an intense yellow. I used to breed extremely yellow dragons to extremely red, and very often I would get dragons on the reddish color in every clutch, some were redder than the red parent. This is one that came from a yellow/red cross. Many of hem were fiery orange/red.


https://www.beardeddragon.org/media/29904/full

Tigers were usually also very bright, coming from high colored yellow or orangey red [ citrus tiger, firetiger ] Something like this, one of my tigers:

https://www.beardeddragon.org/media/30065/full

 

[Celestialdragons]

Okay. Because we have hypo/het trans zeros, and really dark red double hets that my husband jokes about breeding to get pink. It just got me thinking about how moone really goes into color combos as much as they focus on the other genetics.