|Typing Your Dragon| Bearded Dragons come in all different
colors and patterns. Normals are browns and dark earth tones,
some light patches of white or off white. Some breeders give
names to colors and patterns as a marketing tool. A red or
orange Bearded Dragon may be called a Blood red or some people
add their own titles to their colors... Another morph is called
"hypo" short for hypomelanistic. This simply means a reduced
amount of melanin or black coloring. Many Bearded Dragons that
have a light or pastel color will be sold as hypos. Those with
almost no color and clear nails are often marketed as Leucistic.
Phenotype and genotype is the difference between what a Bearded
Dragon looks like physically and what they are genetically. Just
because a Bearded Dragon is a certain color, does not make him a
particular morph. If two orange Bearded Dragons have a yellow
offspring, even though the color is yellow, he is of orange
lineage and will probably throw more orange babies than yellow.
The yellow is a fluke. T