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2 week old baby b.c. longicauda. Some of the litter have more anery look. What do you think?

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looks anery to me.
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Since the BCL change color so much as they grow up and turn almost all black and gold. I don't think it would make a difference if it is an anery.

Just my thoughts

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Very nice!
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Greg Holland
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It could just be my screen, but It looks like there's brown in his tail...brown contains red. It will be interesting to see how his colors develop.

Good Luck, Chris Olson
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Brown is a very vague color, and has a big range of compnents. Brown can be a dark yellow so it doesnt neccisarily have to have red in it.

It looks anery to ME, but wait a few sheds and see what he does.
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Anerythrism is a genetic snafu that makes the animals cells incapable of producing red and usually yellow pigment. This is why many Anerys are also axanthic. The same thing that causes red pigment also causes yellow....

Take care, Chris
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If yellow is usually removed with the red in the anerythristic gene then why do almost all anerythristics yellow "tan" with age?
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The cells ability to produce yellow is effected by the defect that causes its inability to produce red...I should say MOST yellow is removed...not USUALLY it is removed. This is why snows yellow out as they mature...but the yellow is not as vivid as in amelanistic animals. In either case, it looks to me like the animal in question has brown...not a color seen in anerythristic animals.

In axanthic animals (not boas) the opposite is true. The same cell misfunction occurs only effecting yellow and MOST red pigment.

Take care, Chris
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Well i think youre confusing them into one. Boas display both yellow AND red pigment. This is why an anerythristic albino (snow) boa will become yellow with age.

There very well could be (though there isnt at this point) an Axanthic boa. Yeloow pigment is developed later in life, again this is why snows, anerys, and ghosts eventually yellow up.

Yellow and red are differnt primary colors in the boas pallate.
If they were the same, then snows wouldnt yellow up, and any high pink animal would have to be at the same time a high yellow. Wich isnt always the case.
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many of the BCL babies will tend to Look Anery for a while and develop more of their color as they grow. At about 3 years is when most of the dramatic markings should be evident
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