| You would get a Snow x Red Flame. Colors vary so widely among clutchmates that it’s tough to predict any further than that. There’s no such thing as a morph in beardies, just phases. The difference being a morph is a genetic "mutation" such as albino, etc. that is passed down in a predictable fashion to the offspring. Beardies color is determined as much by color-changing cells called iridophores as it is by fixed pigment cells, and so the best they can inherit is a tendency to show certain colors. They are genetically capable of displaying almost anything. Even in well-established bloodlines such as Sandfire that have been bred for 20 years you get a lot of surprises. Technically you can only get a hypo red or hypo orange by mating a hypomelanistic parent to a red or orange phase one. The names given to phases are Father x Mother so you can better keep track of the bloodlines, although lots of newbies just seem to make up their own these days. Clutches can range from just 3 or 4 eggs all the way up to a record of 68. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 25-30 per clutch is probably about average. The colors of the babies is in no way predictable as the iridophores will just do their own thing. Not even recessive traits such as leucism breed true, although the more inbred a line is the more likely you can predict the colors. Of course, the more linebred, the more likely you get weakened immune systems, liver and lung disease, birth defects, and failure to thrive. Most reputable breeders these days take parents from very unlike bloodlines to reduce the chances of illness and we’ve been getting some gorgeous little surprises in their offsprings’ colors. |