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I saw some beutiful high color black throats at an expo in Florida displayed by "Tar Pit" reptiles or something like that. Does anyone know of anybody breeding black throats for color?
Thanx,
Bulldawger

Not that I am aware, that is if you are talking about some kind of VERY unusual color phase that I've yet to see. Many of the hatchlings of varius locales are colorful, but as adults they tend to look like this pic, or variations on the theme. Some have a bit of red, some a bit more yellow, etc.

Cheers
Jim

But I dont know if he has lately. He has some great examples of colorful or unusual color BTs. When adults they have dull coloration, but you never know what they will look like as they change constantly for a year.

The most commonly bred locality for albigularis come from Tanzania, i.e. black-throat monitors, which come in colors ranging from brown w/ brick-red facial/head colors, black banding, yellow spotting on feet and back; The more southerly cape have more brown banding coloration, do not get as big as Tanzanian/equatorial forms; the more northern Ethiopian types are much darker, having fewer ocelli, and have more yellow around the face and fore-legs markings. On Tanzanian types the dorsal bands may alsmost touch on the ventral side, where all of them have a light yellow cream color belloy coloration.

There are pocket locations of albigularis, that have been imported only once that I know of from central Africa, that are brown all over, with a darker chocolate brown neck/nape bandings and almost no ocelli on back - these are very habitat restrictive, and were described some 75 years ago in obscure literature. There is a captive group of albino albigularis in Uganda I know of, and a single specimen from Egypt that has alot of yellow upon it, and is the single northern most verified locality for this species in Africa.

Within any clutch of albigularis, you can get alot of variation on the theme, with head size, color pattern (which can/does change w/age), and body length/tail length ratios, that allow natural selection work...
cheers,
mbayless