Witblits dragons - true patternless beardies

Josh and the rest

This is truly exciting! I was hoping that the Witblits and Silverbacks are the same mutation. This would have been good for the patternless gene pool.

I believe that this is the first conclusive evidence that they are different genotypic morphs. Good work! I will email you more in detail.

This now opens new doors and lots of possibilities! Firstly I think it is important for everyone to know that there is a difference between the two, thus we should also talk in a way that differentiates between them. Ie saying "Japanese silverbacks" and " Witblits patternless". Just mentioning patternless might create confusion in the near future...

Josh, keep up the good work on that side of the Atlantic. Over here in South Africa our dragons are sleeping and hopefully we will produce a few strong Witblits and to get some size into the Witblits patternless line we will breed a few OGG Witblits patternless hets (our OGG female is over 600 grams). I will leave the breeding of 'fancy' patternless morphs (like the leathersilvers Witblitys translucents etc) up to you and the Germans as I have no acces to those type of morphs. We will focus on size and colour this season.

Groete

Jacques

Hi Jaques,

There is still so much more we need to learn about the two morphs. I got very little info about the silverbacks, and the witblits still need to be bred full circle. We still need to find out if witblits can be made into solid colors, and if the genetic can mask over other mutations like silverback.

Silverbacks don't hatch patternless/white like the witblits. It's a color that seems to blanket over them once they reach a certain size. Almost like they have been dipped in a silvery paint.

Any day now, I should hatch some witblits, and have some more clutches incubating. I have also been breeding the "het" witblits to different dragons this year.

Glad to hear your breedings are doing well.

Josh

Josh

Yeah these are exciting times (I say this with tears in my eyes as I have lost one of my beautiful females, Malibu. A huge loss for us).

Back to the positives...

I am sure that with time we will be able to make the Witblits colourful. South Africa is known as the Rainbow nation. Perhaps this also holds true for Witblits... My problem is that I don't have great colours to work with. I have an orange german giant female. She is pale compared to the orange dragons found in US and Europe! The same with my yellow male. You can't even compare him to the citrus dragons avialable in the US.

I would give my left tttt... toe... to get my hands on some of the dragons you okes have. It is just impossible to import!

One of my future projects was to breed solid red Witblits but it will not happen. I will leave the colour projects in the hands of people like you. My focus will turn to producing pure white Witblits and 'gold' Witblits.

I am sure that with all the effort you put in that you will produce some nice Witblits in the near future. Then again, a 'normal' hatchling Witblits truly is amazing. You will see that pretty soon when you hatch your first Witblits...

Goodluck and keep us posted.

Cheers

Very neat and interesting thread!

Can't wait to see what comes of them!

Wheres an update pdragon? Did you end up hatching some witblits?

I didn't produce any out of the first clutch. My eggs keep dying off. Only hatched 3 total. Two normal leathers and a silk. The second clutch of eggs completely died off. Got another clutch that is due to hatch any day now, that so far looks good. About 15 eggs total(about 6 died off). I will post up my results if I can get them to hatch

Josh

Here is a pic of one of the babies from the Witblits. All of them that I held back have this yellow color.

Josh

These are some very nice dragons congrats on the patternless morph,but i would stray away from calling BLITS a WHITE dragon cause after adjusting the exposure on the photo,he's nowhwere near WHITE, he's actually orange just super overexposed from what I could tell.Good luck with the new morphs.

does the belly consist of any color? or just the normal blk ovals with white?

The belly's on mine were pure white, no pattern.

Josh