curious

[NaTasha Brinkley]

I was reading about stress marks before and it made me think of the darkening of the 'beard' when it flares and it made me wonder about my hypo leucistic... if they have no dark pigment will their stress marks and beard flushing show up?

 

[Germ]

Really good question ... I have had no experience with anything but Normal BDs, have never owned any of the more exotic Morphs, so my answer would have to be

Maybe some of the more experienced Breeders may have an answer for you.

 

[Aleena]

They still have some dark.. er pigmentation, just not very dark. Cass is the mother of quite a few hypos and her beard has gone quite orange as of late, she obviously is not hypo though. I'm thinking fire's beard will be orange, she/he is hypo but I will find out sometime I'm sure. Obviously, not experienced... just curious about it now.

 

[NaTasha Brinkley]

how can she not be a hypo, but some of her offspring are? Is 'hypo' a recessive gene?

 

[Aleena]

There were clutch mates of hers that were hypos. And not all of her kids were hypos, so I would imagine so.