A gened-up green Guardian

[oracne]

I bought Gingko as basic/basic/basic, but subsequently added tiger and seraph genes, a combination I've grown fond of. Still debating a tertiary gene, as underbelly doesn't make much change, and the others would all obscure the patterns of the primary and secondary. Crackle looked the best, but it wasn't as nice as he looks right now.

Comments

[jinxaire]

He looks nice! I think you should leave him as is if you're not considering circuit or gembond. The crackle is a little too much IMO and the underbelly isn't really noticeable with the green, at least not enough for the chunk of change you'd spend.

I have a basic tundra who I'm planning on giving tiger/seraph/underbelly. Her colors are thistle, rose and white, so right now she's really drab as a basic but she'll be really cute once she's gened up.

[oracne]

Those colors sound lovely, like a bunch of flowers.

I wish underbelly showed better on male tundras. So far, I've liked it best on Guardians and male Imperials, when the color is contrasting. Though I did give underbelly to a triple-violet I bred accidentally, since the violet regular belly was beige and looked weird.

[chomiji]

The other reason to add, say, underbelly is if you're going to breed him to another dragon who has a tert. Having the tert on both parents forces the issue of tert in the offspring. Like if you have a tert-basic dragon bred to a gembond dragon, there's maybe a 5% chance of the gembond showing up. But if you breed an underbelly dragon to that gembond, it's more like 20% chance of the gembond showing up.

I agree that crackle is too busy on mot of the patterned primaries, except for really dark tigers. I love a light crackle on an obsidian tiger, for example. The obsidian tiger is a much better, more velvety black than an obsidian iridescent.

[oracne]

I did think of that, but haven't decided which green I'll breed him with first. Also, one of my green females doesn't have a tert gene. Yet.