Ruby Platinum Sugar Gliders Source: Facebook The combination of genes responsible for this in sugar gliders is not yet known but if the glider is heterozygous for cremeino or albino, there’s a chance it will be a strawberry. In human beings, the gene that causes red hair is common in children whose parents both have red hair. Not a lot of research has been done about this mutation but it seems that it is a recessive gene. This trait also does not occur naturally. They have red fur and garnet-colored eyes. Strawberry Sugar Gliders Strawberry Sugar Gliders Source: Facebook If one parent glider carries the cremeino allele, the chances of breeding a strawberry/ red glider are higher. The markings and the stripe that runs from the tail to the head are usually a shade of brown or red and they have ruby red eyes. This sugar glider has a cream-colored or reddish coat. Two cremeino alleles are required for the trait to be shown physically. This color trait is not usually expressed in the wild and selective breeding has to be put in place to get cremeino offspring. For example, a mosaic with a white face will have all the other characteristics of a mosaic sugar glider but without the thick lines from the ears to the eyes.
The white face characteristic can be found in gliders with other coat colors. The gene that causes white face is dominant so pairing one with a standard gray sugar glider will give a white face blonde offspring. They lack the black bars that run from the ear to the eye which results in them having white faces, hence the name. White face blondes are the most common sugar gliders you can find. White Face Blonde Gliders White Face Blonde Gliders Source: Facebook Unlike the black face black beauties, breeding two albinos do not pose any health threats to the offspring. Also, the gene is recessive so you would need 2 albino parents to breed one. Getting your hands on an albino glider might be tricky since they are rarely bred. In other animals, albinism is accompanied by visual impairments like photophobia and sometimes total blindness but this has not been recorded in sugar gliders. When it affects sugar gliders, they have white fur, little to no markings, and red eyes. The condition occurs when the enzyme tyrosinase is not produced or it is produced in low amounts. Albino Sugar Gliders Albino Sugar Gliders Source: FacebookĪlbinism causes a lack of melanin pigmentation on the sugar glider’s coat. It is difficult to tell these two apart especially when they are newborns but within two weeks, the white mosaic starts to get color on the ears. Some white mosaics have dark spots on their ears but the size and pigmentation vary from one to another.Ī white mosaic closely resembles the leucistic sugar glider and there is a chance that it has leucistic genetics. As the name suggests, it has a white base color and most of them have little or no dark-colored spots.
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