Leatherback Central Bearded Dragon
Greatly reduced scale size, giving a smooth back and brighter colour.
How it inherits
- One copy
- One copy is enough to see it.
- Two copies
- Two copies produce a distinct animal with its own name — not simply a stronger version.
Leatherback × Leatherback
Four ways the two can meet.
- Leatherback50%
- Super Leatherback25%
- Normal25%
A pale box is an animal that shows the morph. These are the odds for each egg on its own, not a promise about a clutch.
Documented health finding. Two copies of this gene produce a Silkback, an animal with essentially no scales. Silkbacks are widely documented to shed with difficulty, to be prone to skin damage and retained shed around the toes and tail, to lose moisture faster than a scaled animal, and to be more sensitive to handling and to UV exposure. Many keepers and welfare bodies consider the combination one that should not be produced.
What this rests on
Established by breeders through repeated crosses and recorded in community documentation, not by published genetics. That is how almost all morph inheritance is known — and it is worth saying rather than presenting it as laboratory fact.
What happens if you breed it
Every pairing involving Leatherback, worked out gene by gene — including what the clutch can be and anything documented about the animals it produces.