leucistic?

[Jakub Urbanski]

Ceratophrys cranwelli SNOW! Two recessive traits (albino and leucistic?) in one frog with the translucent skin... Second picture shows final stage of the 'bleaching'. Within a week or so from the tail loss, they loose all traces of the yellow pigmentation... Out of some 900 albino froglets just a dozen or so look like this...

[poison]

These are a type of albino. They fully lack melanin (the red eyes)

[Jakub Urbanski]

they also lack yellow pigment. It is yet another recessive trait, unrealated to albinism. Out of 3 pairs of albino we bred recently only one produced that kind of offspring. Shortly after metamorphosis they look like regular albino, and soon afterwards they "bleach". The one with yellow patch on the back is already white, by now...

[reptileszz]

I have no idea what it is but it looks very cool!

Carole

[Jakub Urbanski]

it is, Carole! doesn't it? We were very excited to find them among the herd of albino froglets...

[mikesfrogs]

What type of albinos were bred? Any samurai

[Jakub Urbanski]

Nope. You can see the pics of amplexus here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

[Lija]

These are so cool looking!

[huey75]

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.

So even with line breeding say 3 or four generations you still ca b there predict if not all a majority of your spawn.

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[mikesfrogs]

You have to line breed for many generations it seems to focus on producing only one specific color per spawn

[Jakub Urbanski]

Well, that is what we are planning to do hopefully all "whites" will reach adulthood.

[huey75]

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).

I never thought to compare it to fish as many chiclids as I bred

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