I also have a small yearling "leucistic," that I purchased from Richard's turtle farm. It's really pink in the legs and neck, and really white on the head. It's shell is bone colored for the most part. I've been working on an existing algae condition since I received him, not a big deal, but it did cover alot of his shell color when I got him. After getting most of the algae off I was pleasantly surprised at how light it was. I changed the wood stump out for a really big plastic one with lots of hiding places and "fishing," spots.
The real tree stunp that I had in there released a lot of tannins thus making my water changes more frequent. It was super light in color. The new plastic stump is much darker in color and now the turtle's shell is getting darker. This change has happened in just a couple weeks. He still has nearly white colorings on the shell, but the darker parts of the shell appear getting darker.

Environment, and food intake seem to affect these guys coloring~
Not as quick as a chameleon, but color changes do appear to be happening. Turtlesox keeps her turtles in White plastic tanks.
All of her turtles are golden phase, and most have pink & caramel colored skin. Hmmmmm.....

Someone posted here not too long ago that they were going to keep their turtles in different colored tanks to see how it affected the turtles coloring. If you're reading this and you conducted the experiments~ please share how the results have turned out so far.

CJ

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