Re: Do Blue Diamond iguanas exist?

Posted by Craig Loose on January 22, 2001 at 22:50:29:

In Reply to: Do Blue Diamond iguanas exist? posted by Sunny on January 22, 2001 at 19:04:39:

There are in fact such things as green iguanas who display a lot of blue colouration. (genetically this is a double recessive gene as it is a recessive of amelanistic), BUT.....the ones sold in pet stores are "blue diamonds" are a marketing gimmick, that as they mature, look identical to your standard "green" green iguana. I have seen a lot of these, and always ends up being the case (in my experience)

NOTE: Just because a reptile (ig in this case) does have a lot of blue in it as an adult does not mean that it will produce amelanistic igs (or even hypo's) it just carries a gene.

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: There are in fact such things as green iguanas who display a lot of blue colouration. (genetically this is a double recessive gene as it is a recessive of amelanistic), BUT.....the ones sold in pet stores are "blue diamonds" are a marketing gimmick, that as they mature, look identical to your standard "green" green iguana. I have seen a lot of these, and always ends up being the case (in my experience) : NOTE: Just because a reptile (ig in this case) does have a lot of blue in it as an adult does not mean that it will produce amelanistic igs (or even hypo's) it just carries a gene.

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