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this little girl is 22 months old. this girl is i think a hypermel anery, that i hope to prove gentic some day. her and a "normal" male het for anery where the only two like this in a litter of 26 in 04. the two where much darker then the rest of the litter at birth and just keep getting dark.

ok i haven't wanted to talk about stress induced color change in longi's but the other day a saw a "sicc" (stress induced color chanage) anery longi for sale with no mention that the color had changed. im worryed that someone while buy it think that that's what anery longi's look like. sicc longis while have a bright white where nromal anerys have bone or ivory colored white areas. the black pigment increase and covers up normal back ground colors normal silver. sicc longis often have miss shaped scales and tend to scare more. sicc is often linked to a regurge or other tramatic event like over heating (ie a thermastat breaks). they are still cool looking snakes but the color of them is not gentic. other then changing color their are fine just diffent.

this male got torn up by a mouse the above animal got over heated when a thermastat broke.

Good luck proving those gems genetic!
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Brandon Nixon

I have a certain guyana male that gets much darker when he is stressed. I have been wondering if color change can be induced by stress in other individuals. He only stays dark for a few hours or a day then he lightens up again, and he has never been severely stressed like the ones you showed. It isn't a permanent change. Were these bcl's in a permanent darkening, or do they change back again? Their stress was obviously great, maybe that's why they stayed so dark?

Thanks for the very interesting post.
Caden

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