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Posted by: DMong at Wed Nov 18 12:00:35 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]  
   

Yes Dan,...most ultra-clean hypo babies of both regular types and extremes can be expected to stay very clean and vivid through adulthood. Although when some get older, even they can get just a tad of tipping. But it is usually very minor, and doesn't really take away from the striking color and pattern. On extremes, it can sometimes just be a barely discernable very light silvery gray haze at the scale tips, but is tough to make-out without close inspection. Other's can basically stay just as they were as neonates too, so they are a bit variable just as any other type is. Some are just nicer than other's.



All of my hypo's and extreme hypos have stayed very colorful and sharp throughout their adulthood.



As you might already know, some of the more average hypo's that basically look nothing more than a fairly "clean" neonate, can display a good amount of tipping as they mature, and by the time these reach adulthood and beyond, can look very normal, and sometimes you can't really even tell they are hypomelanistic at all. As I've always said, they can vary between a 1 and a 10, and anywhere in between.



All in all, the nicer and more hypomelanistic you start out with, the nicer it will be as an adult.





best regards, ~Doug




































































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