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Juvenile female Moondust
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Component genes
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Arctic Lavender
The genetics
Lavender
Lavender is a recessive, tyrosinase-positive (T+) form of albino. It produces a soft gray-lavender body with a purple tongue and eyes; hatchlings often carry a reddish tint that fades to lavender-gray with age.
Arctic
Arctic is an incomplete-dominant gene that tends to brighten, clean up, and cool the overall appearance of a Western Hognose. Arctic animals often show a lighter base color, sharper contrast, cleaner pattern, brighter coloration, white outlines around pattern elements, and speckling/flecking compared to non-Arctic animals.
What makes a Moondust
- Two copies of Lavender — recessive, so it only shows when paired up.
- One copy of Arctic — the single-gene Arctic form (incomplete dominant).
This describes the genetics of the animal itself — not the odds from a pairing. Outcome odds are the Genetics Calculator's job.
More in the Lavender family
The same base with its Arctic and Anaconda modifier variants.
Lavender
Lavender
Lavender Anaconda
LavenderLavender Superconda
Lavender
Moonstone
Lavender
Moonstruck
LavenderMoonbeam
Lavender
Moonlight
LavenderSuper Moon
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