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FR
at Sat Mar 26 22:29:14 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
My beautiful Orange doreanus, grew up to be both males and alsolutely lost their beautiful color. To a point they were very normal.
Also, they were a bit different then yours, they did not have bluetails not even when young.
About monitors and other reptiles changing colors, such as heck they do. This commonly occurs with many snakes and other reptiles. It occurs both otogenetically(as they age) and with either a day/night or temperature change.
As you mentioned, many pythons, particularly ozzie pythons have a huge day/night change. It was published with Omppelli(sorry for the spelling) pythons. We seen it occur with both childrens pythons and Olive pythons, at night, they appear translucent. In the day, their pigment appears much denser.
Here in Arizona, we have a species of rattlesnake, C.cereberus, Ariz Black rattlesnake, that does this very dramatically. In the day, they can be jet black with some yellow bars or X's. At night, an individual that was totally black in the day, with turn a very lite grey. Other species of rattlesnake do this much less dramatically. This also occurs with many of our lizard species, with Yarrows spinys, S.yarrowi, being very good at this. Only with them its about temperature. When cold, they are very black and when warmed up, they exhibit blues and golds on a lite grey animal.
As to your species of python, I have no experience with. I have seen several scrubbies in nature. But not in enough different conditions to see anything useful. Thanks FR
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RE: Orange doreanus (it use to be!) - FR, Sat Mar 26 22:29:14 2005