Sugar gliders are illegal to own as pets in a few states, including Alaska, California, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania. Although native to Australia and New Guinea, sugar gliders are classified as exotic animals in the US.

The leucistic sugar glider is all white with black eyes; therefore it is also referred to as black-eyed white (Fig. 29-6). A mosaic sugar glider has characteristic white patches on the body, feet, or tail. If the mosaic coloration involves the tail, the sugar glider is referred to as a ring-tail mosaic.

A carmino is a color variation of sugar gliders, originally found wild in Sorong, Indonesia. The carmino was first imported into the US in 2011. A caramel albino sugar glider has a soft red/pink coat color. They also have remarkably pink ears, and pink eyes.

Sugar gliders with a lack of pigmentation are called albino sugar gliders. These gliders will contain a completely white body, red eyes and feature little/faint to no markings. An albino sugar glide is considered a rare color variation and recessive.

Breeders have been to known sell them for around $350 each. It sounds like a lot of money, but this price is much less than what most “rare” gliders end up costing. Some of those subspecies and colors can cost as much as $5,000! You can expect this price to vary on a couple of factors, though.

When you see a sugar glider description that includes 100% het for leucistic, that’s what we are talking about. If you want to breed for the leucistic color, the standard pairing would be one that is a leucistic (like the ones listed here) and a sugar glider that is 100% het for leucistic.

Leucistic sugar gliders are solid white with black eyes. This color variation is produced by recessive genes which means that both parents must have the leucistic gene. What’s fascinating is that a glider can have the gene for the color leucistic, but be a standard gray.

The only way you get solid white, (BEW) leucistic gliders are from leu or leu het parents. I am personally friends with several of the breeders of mo’s that you claim are lost or destroyed & that is false. Those ugly mo’s happen to be quite sought after & cost about $3000 each.

This is a recessive gene and must be paired with another glider with the same recessive gene to reproduce an albino glider.