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All the snakes I own are boas.. i dont know much about GTP's.
I was briefly reading what I could on corallus.com and came across something i wanted to ask you guys that personally own these snakes.

I was interesting in purchasing one of those yellow Chondros (after I had learned more about them), and in some reading I was doing... the article made it seem like eventually as the snake got older it would lose its yellow color and turn green?? I had seen some classifieds of some chondros that also stated something like this... how the snakes do not have any "green" showing "yet". Do these yellow or reddish "chondros" eventually turn green.. hence GTP?

Indeed, the vast majority of the baby chondros will undergo what is called an ontogenic color change...from red or yellows with off white or pastel triangles, they will become all green, green with blue markings, some white spots or both. The color change usually occurs within the first year but sometimes may take several years to complete. Sometimes they can change overnight. A few of these snakes will retain some yellow as adults and some breeders have worked to select these individuals to increase the amount of yellow. There are now a few bloodlines that gives (read:increases the chances of having a...) beautiful yellow adult snakes (or mostly yellow). If you truly want a yellow adult, be ready to spend a lot of bucks(several thousands)...they come with a price! Even babies from them does not guarantee that your snake will be yellow as adult...Beware of many advertisment saying "look at this yellow baby...or 2 years old and still 70% yellow...etc probably all of them will turn green...sometimes it takes a few years.

Excellent!.. Thanks a bunch for the info.. It helped tremendously

>>Indeed, the vast majority of the baby chondros will undergo what is called an ontogenic color change...from red or yellows with off white or pastel triangles, they will become all green, green with blue markings, some white spots or both. The color change usually occurs within the first year but sometimes may take several years to complete. Sometimes they can change overnight. A few of these snakes will retain some yellow as adults and some breeders have worked to select these individuals to increase the amount of yellow. There are now a few bloodlines that gives (read:increases the chances of having a...) beautiful yellow adult snakes (or mostly yellow). If you truly want a yellow adult, be ready to spend a lot of bucks(several thousands)...they come with a price! Even babies from them does not guarantee that your snake will be yellow as adult...Beware of many advertisment saying "look at this yellow baby...or 2 years old and still 70% yellow...etc probably all of them will turn green...sometimes it takes a few years.