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i have a female Black throat that i eventually want to breed. She has great color (lots of yellows and oranges). i would love to find a male as a baby to raise and eventually stud that had the same high colors or possibly morph. Ive done a little searching and i cant find a thing on black throat morphs is it because they dont exist or am i not looking in the right places?

Post pictures of her.
I might be wrong(happens often hahaha) but I am thinking it has more to do with locale than anything special like "Morph"
With pictures, maybe someone could tell you the locale it came from.
If not, we all like pictures of pretty lizards.

Scott
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

ok I think I have asked something like this before a few months ago. I believe the answer was something along the lines, "um monitor keepers generally can barely keep them alive, let alone breed them or even start getting fancy and worry about color morphs." There are some attempting to breed albinos here and there I hear about.

So...come up with a cool morph, like the flavi that looks like the rudi in the above post, and your golden.

Tom

that would be awsome, mine is still less than a year old so i have a little time to do some searching but i want to get one by the end of this year so there wont be too much of a size difference, i guess i have to keep the look out for high colors.

thanks

The prettiest lizards I have ever kept were always covered in dirt.
Come to think of it, they seemed to be happier when dirty.
You can have your "Morphs". Give me a happy dirty lizard anyday.

Scott
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Many generations of breeding in captivity, and breeding certain individuals to each other to exagerrate a feature, sooner or later it happens, but you need to have this kind of common every day breeding occuring among many keepers to have morphs occur.
Depending on what location a WC BT comes from or any other monitor for that matter, it has either lighter colors, or darker colors, depending on average temps, rainfall, and altitiude these changes occur for survival.
What occurs in some cases in captivity among certain breeders is a hybrid of 2 species, or a cross of 2 subspecies, not morphs.
If monitor keeping and breeding were so simple as colubrids in sweater boxes we would have so called "morphs".