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This is a snake I produced 2006. He completely changed color in just a day or two last june. The first picture is him at one year old and the last picture is him with a sister that is pretty close to how he used to look.

Dan

newest morph out there, color changing rainbow boas. just add warm or cold water and watch them change before your eyes. oh wait sorry i was thinking of the color change hot wheels lol.
great lookin animals

My niece wanted hot wheels for her birthday so I got her some of those that change color. I don't know how much time I wasted dropping those things in boiling water and then cold water trying to get them to change. My brother finally got them to change by putting them in the freezer. You didn't need warm water to change them back, all you had to do was touch them. Maybe they are meant to be played with in the snow lol.

That's an interesting color change.

Does anyone know why this happends?
What is the odds of this happening?

I am just currious due to having a new BRB that looks like she
will grow to look like yours before the color change.
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JWilmot

0.1 Wife
0.1 BRB
1.1 Leopard Gecko
2.0 Mutts

I don't know what the odds are of this happening but I still have twelve siblings fron this litter and Houdini is the only one that has changed.....so far

Dan

Sounds like that fits into the "Calico" mold. Not speaking about the extreme white of Fluffy but the "ontogenic" mode of change.....

Ontogenic in this case refering to...

Normal color as a baby...
Reach sexual maturity
Go through a rapid color change.

I actually have several that fit that scenario...

Of course Fluffy, not in my possesion when he went throught he first of his color changes but was told a similar story, normal as a baby and color changed at sexual maturity....

Then a year ago he went through a second color change and now is....

That's my only example of one showing a lot of white.

Then I have a couple of other ones that went through color changes without the extreme white....

Zoe, got her as a baby from a local girl, born on 05/26/2007.
In July of 2008...

and in July of 2009....

As you can see, similar to yours where she now looks Anery-ish, darker animal with white crescents.

I also have Lucy, produced by me on 08/21/2005.
December of 2008....

March of 2009....

Was not sure if it was darkening while gravid but she has not returned to prior colors. Also looking anery-ish with darker colors and white crescents. Also she shows the "change" does not always happen right at sexual maturity, this was her second successful breeding season.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I didn't know that these others had gone through this change also. It will be interesting to see if they continue to change. Thanks for posting these pictures.

Dan

I've been looking at lots of brb photos over the last week, and I saw your Fluffy several times.

Have you had any medical testing done on Fluffy? He looks to me like a case of vitiligo -- an immune-related disorder which causes loss of pigment over time. Just wondering!