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    Hello and welcome to FF Jakub! Not leucistic since those lack all colors on organisms body and have normal colored eyes. Appears more like a translucent effect of sorts. Visited your FB pics page and saw many very nice frogs there, congrats !
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mentat View Post
    Hello and welcome to FF Jakub! Not leucistic since those lack all colors on organisms body and have normal colored eyes. Appears more like a translucent effect of sorts. Visited your FB pics page and saw many very nice frogs there, congrats !
    Thanks! We will keep updating the gallery...

    I know that leucistic have normal colored eyes, but please keep in mind that those are also albino. So they are bearers of the two recessive traits. It is the same with leopard geckos - true leucistic are black-eyed, but so-called supermorphs (two recessive traits or more) leucistic/albino are red-eyed.

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    We call them white albinos. There is a few here in the USA and the rest are in japan. Mutant morphs help produce frogs like this. Your female seems to be of the lime green albino type.

    i have blue eyed leucistic, translucent and frogs with transparent skin.

    If yours came out one color and started changing colors they are mutants.

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    Thanks Mike! Do you have any experience with breeding them? And genetics behind that trait? In my opinion it is reccessive mutation, my guess would be that more than a single allele is involved (judging by the frequency) or it is de novo mutation (unlikely, as there are more frogs with the same phentotype, and if it shows up out of sudden it must be dominant). Also interesting is that those frogs emerged as the very last from the whole batch, kind of retarded... It took them some 2,5-3 weeks longer than average... We are going to breed this pair once again in a month or so, and will see if we get more frogs like this...

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    Most mutant type pacman frogs are the last to come out of the water. See if the back half of the belly is clear on those frogs. As far as breeding those babies back to each other you may not get the same colors as the parents.

    my two phantoms here do not produce phantom when bred together.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikesfrogs View Post
    Most mutant type pacman frogs are the last to come out of the water. See if the back half of the belly is clear on those frogs. As far as breeding those babies back to each other you may not get the same colors as the parents.

    my two phantoms here do not produce phantom when bred together.
    Thanks for the tip Mike! We still have some 30+ "late" tadpoles - and most of them look kind of strange...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jakub Urbanski View Post
    Thanks for the tip Mike! We still have some 30+ "late" tadpoles - and most of them look kind of strange...
    Most mutants are the last to come out of the water.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikesfrogs View Post
    ... two phantoms here do not produce phantom when bred together.
    Interesting, these results are similar to some fish genetics, where breeding a male and female with variation does not produce the variation (i.e. an Electric Blue Jack Dempsey).
    Remember to take care of the enclosure and it will take care of your frog !​

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