purple(paradoxed) hypotransluscent

[pdragon]

Here are a few het silverbacks. All three of these dragons started off orange like the one on the far left. Once the midde and far right one reached about 8-10 inches, they started to change. The close-up pics are the one in the middle.

Josh

 

[Beardiefreak26]

beautiful dragons

 

[shizzle1984]

so how are these produced?? i seen you said its 1 outta 2000 but what are you crossing to get those odds?

 

[shizzle1984]

sorry i seen you crossed silverback hets crossed with a polar hypotrans but can you get one regardless of genes or is there only certin type of cross breading that can produce these?? an is it more likely to produce a paradox if one or maybe both parents are a paradox them selfs?!?!

 

[pdragon]

I think it's a particular combination of genes is what makes a paradox dragon. Transluscent definately needs to be in the mix. Sometimes, mutations like this are not as easy to produce like a simple recessive, dominant, or codominant. At some point, I(or someone else) may figure out the right combination to make them more consistantly. For now, it just seems like a random mutation.

I have bred paradox to paradox a few times, and had little or no luck at making another one. I pretty much get the same results breeding two het trans together.

The silverback hets that I posted look like they are trying to turn silver. Some het hypos do the same thing where they can turn really light like a hypo, or some het trans turn trans(and eyes change over). Both when bred, still work just like a regular het. Those unusual silverback hets probably work the same way too.

Josh

 

[pdragon]

If any of you can make it out to san diego in june, I will be doing a talk on bearded dragons. It's free. I will do my best to make it interesting.

Josh

http://www.reptiletalks.com/#!talk-schedule

 

[scaledverts]

Very Nice dragons Josh.

I do have a sort of off topic question for you. Why are all your dragon cages lined with Japanese(I assume) newspapers?: I see it in all of your pics and am just curious haha.

 

[pdragon]

Thanks, I appreciate the complements.

Haha! You have no idea how many times i've been asked that question. I buy 500lbs of paper at a time from this local paper company. There has been some complaints from other businesses about nudity on some of the asian papers, so they send them all to me.

I do miss the english papers...I get so much useless information every day while im cleaning cages.

Josh

 

[CarolinaClassicDragons]

Good stuff Josh! Here is one that I produced last year. Purple patches were pretty much isolated to the hind legs. This one has a great variety of colors depending on mood.

Thanks for starting this thread!

 

[pdragon]

Very cool! Nice yellow color too.

Josh

 

[pdragon]

Here are some pics a paradox silkback transluscent.

Josh

 

[westcoastdragons]

Wow!!!! Stunning!

 

[Beardiefreak26]

Josh is there any way i could use your pictures for a school speech about beardies and the morphs and husbandry and such

 

[Mistyck]

Here are some pics a paradox silkback transluscent.

Josh

OMG Josh, it's gorgeous! I want one of your dragons! Too bad I can't have one!

 

[Payara]

Those are some unreal animals