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this is a porosus, i just don't know if it passes as a leucistic or just what do you call this color morph. help people.

thanks in advance.
care info would be greatly appreciated (habitat, enclosure size, water tempt., food?

Leucistic animals are solid white with black or blue eyes.
This porosus like a few others I have seen this year is very pale yellow with the same black markings as any normal hatchling, I am at a loss as to what to call this color variation but it is definately not leucistic.

If you scroll through previous posts and the FAQ's your other questions will be well answered...

Looks like one of the many "morphs" I saw at Samutprakarn Farm in Thailand. They told me, that 3-5 of 1000 hatchlings are showing such different colorations.

I also saw many of these "golden crocodile" morphs at Samutprakan when I last visited. Additionally they have albino siamese crocs and albino yacare caimen. At a separate facility the owner has some remarkably high yellow golden crocs that are his personal treasures. While I was there we packed up some of these magnificent creatures for shipment to the US..........

how much you got from them? this 1 is from a friend in malaysia. is this worth much? rare? common? thanks abunch.

Did you grow up in So Cal? I knew a Mike Flores when I was a kid.

>>how much you got from them? this 1 is from a friend in malaysia. is this worth much? rare? common? thanks abunch.
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>>this is a porosus, i just don't know if it passes as a leucistic or just what do you call this color morph. help people.
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>>thanks in advance.
>>care info would be greatly appreciated (habitat, enclosure size, water tempt., food?
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True "power" is not to be found in social or economic placement or stature, which are merely illusory, finite, frail and brief.
True power is to be found in one's sheer will and personal determination to achieve one's goals at ANY cost and at ANY sacrifice.

which is a recessive genetic condition of a reduced number of pigment cells called melanophores located in the loose dermis beneath the epidermis) layer of skin tissue.

Truly,
Paul Bodnar

thanks to everyone who replied

We hatch several thousand eggs each year and these colour morphs often appear from the same areas in the wild. I've been calling them "hypomelanistic" because that simply means reduced melanin (black pigment), which is what we're seeing here. Some of them have an almost white base colour, but with distinct black markings like this one has. In captivity, they are often highly aggressive. This may be pure coincidence though.

In Samutprakarn, a lot of their hybrid porosus x siamensis crocs turn out to be such a colour. They call them "Golden Crocodiles". Where is this croc from?

You've got to be joking that you have this animal (the largest reptile on earth) and you don't know how to care for it..Not even what it eats??
Matt

You've got to be joking that you have this animal (the largest reptile on earth) and you don't know how to care for it..Not even what it eats??
Matt

this is still not with me, for your information. i am just trying to search for infos on this before i do anything.

Sorry, but I dont think a saltwater crocodile makes a good starter croc. The Croc FAQ and Colin Stevenson´s great Paleosuchus Page might be helpful.
Ralf