"As far as I know, new borns have more gray silver color, and darken after the first few sheds. Can someone enlighten me to this?"

Out of curiousity, what are you basing this on to begin with? There's only a couple people in this country that can tell you exactly what they look like at an hour old! That might be why he's not getting a lot of answers on how dark they may or may not be as NEWBORNS. The best place for that answer would be Hans W. As far as them being imported, you said you got yours from a company in Costa Rica that CAN export them....who's to say he's not a customer as well? Possibly at the time he states, there was another company that was able to do this as well, if they were not being exported then to begin with. Your going to have to do a lot of research to be able to prove he didn't export them from Costa Rica. Whether it's worth it or not is up to you! In his words, he basically said the only difference between "black pearls" and "leopards" is that his parental stock are Costa Rican, not Sonorans. If it looks like a duck........LOL, good luck proving his lineage. Take care

Paul

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