Scott,
. I am not Jeff F but I can probably answer your question. I have rasied a bunch of BRBs up from babies. I am neever in a hurry to sell my babies and have often held back dozens of them and sold them a year or two later. Darker babies often turn into pretty red adults. However, the darker they are the more likely they will be too dark as adults. Light orange babies usually darken during the first year and then lighten up a bunch at some point between 15 and 24 months of age. Almost every BRB that I have raised looked it's very plainest around a year to 15 months of age. As much as color is important the presence of good bright crescents above the spots on the sides makes a big impression in how a BRB looks. Babies with good crescents keep them throughout life and babies with dull or small crescents usually do not ever grow to have pretty crescents.
Jeff C

>>Jeff,
>>Have you raised any newborns to adult size to see how they turned out? I was just wondering what darker neo's turn out to be as opposed to what lighter neo's grow into; colorwise that is?
>>Just curious,
>>Scott

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