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RossCA
at Fri Feb 13 03:21:19 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RossCA ]
Hey byron, good to here you got her back. You were pretty lucky to find her during the drought to begin with. That's interesting what Paul is saying because out of the 3 I found in that field, only the male shows hypermelanism, if its even hypermelanism. The females look very close but the ventrals are normal. I still can't figure out why the ventrals are normal on some dark ones and regular on others. It also seems, after seeing a few photo's and your king in person, that the dark ones with normal ventral patterns have more dark pigment mixed in with the yellow dorsaly than the ones with dark bellies. The two I have, have dark bellies but they don't have nearly as much dark pigment up top as the normal bellied dark kings I've seen pictures of. Remember, I'm only going by two examples Paul sent me and your king. All three were juveniles but my dark bellied kings were not very dark above from juveniles either. Seems really strange and complicated. I wonder if Hubbs book will cover any of this in detail. I doubt it. lol He did tell me once that the hypers can have normal or dark bellies. Here's the two I have. The one showing its belly is from a different area. Cool post man.
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RE: That's good info - and a few ??????? - RossCA, Fri Feb 13 03:21:19 2009