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just curious... my veiled's only a month or 2 old and he's still very green.. he gets stripes and blackish-green spots when i get near him or when he's pissed off i should say.. but i see all these veiled that have bright colorations like yellow and greens as adults and i was just wondering at what age do they begin to adapt more color & is that just when they get pissy like mine or do they generally stay that color as adults
i know alot of things can effect the coloration but i was just curious what i had to look forward to thanks
Bryant

Chams start to show their adult coloration at various ages, but I think most veileds don't start until 8 months or so. Many veileds go through a duller brown phase before their hormones kick in and stimulate display colors. If he starts looking mostly brown at 6-8 months it may be a sign he's getting ready. Sometimes showing them their reflection for a few minutes at a time triggers a display. Showing green at 2 months is normal. How much of the other colors he'll have is mostly genetic, so you'll just have to be patient!

i figured that it would just come with time...
but will the adult coloration be " just because i can " sorta thing or will it be like now when he's all pissy ~

but thats for the reply

I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean. Anyway, you'll soon learn his patterns. He'll tend to be lightand bright when he's asleep, show more intense colors and darker margins around his stripes when he's displaying, and the more pissed off he gets the more the dark borders will expand. His resting colors will be less intense and you won't tend to see the dark borders on stripes. They vary a lot, so hard to predict. Every cham has its individual markings to some degree.