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Just wondering because as I understand it, these anerys don't stay the nice silvery grey black and white like they were born...how long a process is it for them to color up and lose the nice anery look?

My friend who I took over this project from was also thinking that they were going to be a nice purple color...is his memory just off, or do they go through a period developing color when they are more purplish and since they were probably a few months old when he recieved his, thats why he remembers babies being that way?

Thanks!
Charlie

Charlie,

The Anerys will be “colored” in about a year. The really just become a brown color. Some of them keep a nice white crescent but not all of them. There is no part of the process where they become purple. For argument sake, my personal opinion is that there is no value to the gene other than combining it with others suck as hypo/anery, albino/anery etc.

Attacked is a few pics of Anerys for your at a year and as an adult The pictures where taken with an iPhone.

About 1 year old

5 year old adult

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John Wiseman
www.rainbowsbydesign.com

18.30 BRBs (as of 6-20-2012)
3.8 others

Thanks John, not sure why my friend was remembering them being purple then...who knows.

I do understand what you're saying as far as the value of the genetics and how they don't really stay anerys...they are some really cool looking little babies though!

It does make me wonder back to something that I think I've mentioned before, something I know I've believed in with some other snakes (especially kenyan sand boas) that when we're going for the genetic morph of an animal, what we would consider normally being kind of the less desireable lower quality animals actually end up making some of the nicer looking morphs.

Charlie