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ATB=?

Are these pictures of crazy reds and yellows a morph of the emerald green tree boa i see in local petstores(NOT where i buy my reptiles)

Thanks

Hi, GoodSmeagol!

ATB = Amazon Tree Boa.

A lot of arboreal boids which are green as adults begin life as red or yellow babies. Cool colors, but they slowly give way to the green adult coloration. (Some of them have some blue, and some Madagascan tree boas maintain some red.) Some of the Amazon Tree Boas are born - and stay - amazingly red or yellow.

~Bruce

Amazon Tree Boas and Emerald Tree Boas are two totally different species.

Amazons can be yellow, orange, red, black, gray, brown, olive, or a mixture of any of these colors. They can range from solid colored with no pattern, to a nice clean cut pattern, to a very heavy mottled or granite type pattern. For the most part, the color they are when they're born is the color they'll be all their lives.

Emeralds are usually born red, sometimes but rarely, they're born yellow, but they all turn into green adults..
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