Yeah, here's where some of that can get pretty trick too along with many other pigment-related issues..LOL!

Melanophores - contain mostly melanosomes and are capable of two forms of pigment production. Eumelanin is brown to black and pheomelanin is orange to rust or rusty brown.

So apparently the orange/rusty-brown colors don't always necessarily pertain to xanthophores.

I have a feeling that this awesome "hypo" BRB might be a perfect example of this too.


~Doug



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• Speckled King out - a153fish, Wed Jul 11 09:59:53 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - foxturtle, Wed Jul 11 10:29:32 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - a153fish, Wed Jul 11 10:39:10 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - Jlassiter, Wed Jul 11 10:46:14 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - a153fish, Wed Jul 11 11:12:15 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - Jlassiter, Wed Jul 11 11:18:41 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - a153fish, Wed Jul 11 11:43:05 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - Jlassiter, Wed Jul 11 11:50:03 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - DMong, Wed Jul 11 13:44:55 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - Jlassiter, Wed Jul 11 17:02:24 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - DMong, Wed Jul 11 17:54:55 2012
• Cal. king clarification - DMong, Wed Jul 11 18:33:05 2012
• oops! - DMong, Wed Jul 11 18:41:11 2012
• RE: oops! - RossPadilla, Wed Jul 11 20:04:34 2012
• RE: oops! - DMong, Wed Jul 11 23:14:28 2012
• BTW! - DMong, Wed Jul 11 23:23:50 2012
• RE: BTW! - Jlassiter, Wed Jul 11 23:27:46 2012
• Second Speck! - a153fish, Wed Jul 11 23:34:28 2012
• RE: Second Speck! - DMong, Wed Jul 11 23:44:20 2012
• RE: Second Speck! - a153fish, Wed Jul 11 23:52:01 2012
• cool! - DMong, Wed Jul 11 23:58:19 2012
• RE: Second Speck! - Jlassiter, Thu Jul 12 00:01:58 2012
• RE: Second Speck! - RossPadilla, Thu Jul 12 00:13:37 2012
• me three, lol..... - a153fish, Thu Jul 12 08:19:17 2012
• RE: me three, lol..... - RossPadilla, Thu Jul 12 08:38:46 2012
• Me too John, thanks! n/p - a153fish, Thu Jul 12 08:15:40 2012
• RE: Second Speck! - RossPadilla, Thu Jul 12 00:12:17 2012
• I agree Ross... - a153fish, Thu Jul 12 08:14:30 2012
• RE: I agree Ross... - RossPadilla, Thu Jul 12 08:31:51 2012
• RE: I agree Ross... - a153fish, Thu Jul 12 08:36:30 2012
• RE: BTW! - DMong, Wed Jul 11 23:41:18 2012
• Lol......np - Jlassiter, Thu Jul 12 00:00:02 2012
• RE: oops! - Jlassiter, Wed Jul 11 23:25:05 2012
• RE: oops! - DMong, Wed Jul 11 23:32:06 2012
• RE: oops! - RossPadilla, Thu Jul 12 00:08:52 2012
• RE: oops! - DMong, Thu Jul 12 02:07:33 2012
• only if! - DMong, Thu Jul 12 02:13:53 2012
• RE: only if! - RossPadilla, Thu Jul 12 03:16:16 2012
• yeah,... - DMong, Thu Jul 12 11:44:13 2012
• RE: oops! - RossPadilla, Thu Jul 12 03:14:01 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - foxturtle, Thu Jul 12 08:07:16 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - a153fish, Thu Jul 12 08:08:59 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - fliptop, Fri Jul 13 13:49:04 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - DMong, Wed Jul 11 11:01:47 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - a153fish, Wed Jul 11 11:09:44 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - DMong, Wed Jul 11 13:26:41 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - GerardS, Wed Jul 11 12:18:28 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - a153fish, Wed Jul 11 12:53:41 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - RossPadilla, Wed Jul 11 14:41:36 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - a153fish, Wed Jul 11 15:06:06 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - joecop, Wed Jul 11 18:18:27 2012
• RE: Speckled King out - KcTrader, Thu Jul 12 07:09:23 2012
• Thanks Jimmy.... - a153fish, Thu Jul 12 08:03:38 2012
• Correction.... - a153fish, Thu Jul 12 08:07:27 2012