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Do apricot pueblan milks get less or more colorful as they get older? I bought a beautiful hatchling pueblan, but saw that the parents did not have much orange. Also, do pueblans or sinaloans ever get black scale-tipping like hondos?

Generally speaking, they will all tend to get more infused with dark pigment to varying degrees, and become somewhat duller as they mature. Of course some individuals will certainly be "cleaner" than others. Instead of the Pueblan's scales always being distinctly "tipped", although many certainly can be,and are, campbelli tend to get more hazed over with melanin, and resembles paint "over-spray", or "newsprint" as many call it in the hobby.

As far as you having an "Apricot" hatchling, and the parents not looking like this, the apricot/orange coloration is a co-dominant trait, not a recessive one, so this can spring up with varying degrees of apricot coloration unexpectedly many times, it's the same thing with the "tangerine" phase of Hondurans. Of course if you breed two very orange examples together, you will greatly increase the odds of the offspring turning out very apricot/orange as well. But even these pairings can have intermediate looking offspring too.

Sinaloans do not get heavily tipped, but they can be slightly tipped many times. But the amount of scale tipping is nowhere near the amount that can typically be seen on some of the other tropical forms.

best regards, ~Doug

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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

I produced some nice ones

This pair is my big apricot producer; about 80%. The remainder are normal and abberant.

Mike

http://s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc177/mingdurga/recipe%20for%20apricots/

Those are some nice Sockheads!

~Doug
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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"