Thanks for the info. I'm positive I was told he's maleH there, Blitz is a leatherback with no other visible morph. As for color, that is what you see, in other words tan/brown and the pattern is common. So you'd call Blitz a leatherback and the color is evident.
It's nice to hear how he fits in to your family, seems like he's a calm and used to being handled.
One interesting thing about leatherbacks is that when they breed with a normal scaled dragon [ non leatherback ] a portion of the babies will always be leatherback and the rest will be normal scaled. If they breed with another leatherback [ which is highly discouraged ] they produce leatherbacks, normals and the controversial silkback all in the same clutch. A silkback has smooth skin, no scales. Because the silkbacks skin is much more fragile, the breeding of 2 leatherbacks is highly discouraged.
So there's some info that the kids might find interesting. BTW are you positive that Blitz is a male ?
Interesting! Thanks for the info!Going out on a limb here, but the name Blitz could be because he is het for witblitz. (Het means he carries the gentics for a trait but it isn't visibly displayed) since witblitz is a recessive trait (meaning it take both parents carrying it for it to be displayed) you would have to breed him with a known witblitz to prove him out.
Witblitz is a very pretty morph, they are earth tones with no pattern at all. When bread with another that has a lot of color they produce dragons without a pattern but that have gorgeous colored panels on there sides and face.
If he was being used as a sire I'm inclined to believe he will carry some hets, the leatherback morph alone probably wouldn't land him the role of a sire.
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