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my 04 female biak which is a yellow baby just shed a couple days ago and after she shed it was time for her to eat so i didnt look at her too closely just put her rat in there and let her eat well today when i went to give her the daily misting i looked her over closely and she is starting to turn green she has little patches on her 3 or 4 scales here 1 scale green over there i know that biaks are slow to turn green and i know the shed doesnt have anything to do with it but once a green tree starts turning green how long does it usually take before they finish turning i have read anywhere from overnight up to several months was just curious
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kevin
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Well, my biak got his first green scales several months ago, and has been adding a couple every week or so since...but from what I've heard about biaks, they can take years to completely change. I recently picked up an aru, so we'll see how diff the 2 are in about a year.

Chris

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>>my 04 female biak which is a yellow baby just shed a couple days ago and after she shed it was time for her to eat so i didnt look at her too closely just put her rat in there and let her eat well today when i went to give her the daily misting i looked her over closely and she is starting to turn green she has little patches on her 3 or 4 scales here 1 scale green over there i know that biaks are slow to turn green and i know the shed doesnt have anything to do with it but once a green tree starts turning green how long does it usually take before they finish turning i have read anywhere from overnight up to several months was just curious
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>>kevin
>>1.1 redtails
>>0.1 green anacondas
>>1.1 yellow anacondas
>>1.1 brazilian rainbow boas
>>1.1 solomon islands ground boas
>>1.1 kenyan sand boas
>>1.1 dumerils boas
>>1.1 amazon tree boas
>>1.1 riverside rosy boas
>>1.1 burmese pythons
>>1.1 reticulated pythons
>>1.1 african rock pythons
>>1.1 blood pythons
>>0.1 childrens pythons
>>1.3 ball pythons
>>1.1 rough scaled sand boas
>>1.1 calabar burrowing pythons
>>1.0.1 biak green tree pythons
>>1.0 timor monitor
>>1.1 bearded dragons
>>0.1 savannah monitor
>>1.0 short haired fox terrier
>>0.1 beautiful woman
>>and more to come

My Biak an 03 Started with a few green scales here and there about 6 months ago now he/she is now 40%-50% green. Clint
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0.1 Colombian Boa-(Boa Constrictor Imperator) "Honey"
1.0 Hogg Isle Boa-(Boa Constrictor Imperator) "Peeker"
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa-(Epicrates Cenchria) "Houdini"
1.1 Argentine Boa-(Boa Constrictor Occidentalis) "Lacie" & "Oreo"
0.0.2 Green Tree Python-(Morelia Viridis)Biak type-"Smog" & Sorong type- "un-named"
2.0 Canines Husky-Cody & Husky/Shepard-Trail
0.1 Wife-Michele
2.0 Kids-Chris & Bodhi(still in the oven)

I just re-read your post and noticed yours was yellow baby. If you ever have the chance to get a red Biak go for it. The prolonged color change with a biak red baby is very eyecatching. Mine started to go rust then orange then yellow as he started to get his green scales. If someone looked at him today they would swear he started as a yellow baby, as most scales if not green are yellow. Smog is also getting some black outlining his dorsal diamonds, kinda cool. It is a very different change then what i'm starting to see in my sorong in which i would say he just looks dirty. Clint
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0.1 Colombian Boa-(Boa Constrictor Imperator) "Honey"
1.0 Hogg Isle Boa-(Boa Constrictor Imperator) "Peeker"
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa-(Epicrates Cenchria) "Houdini"
1.1 Argentine Boa-(Boa Constrictor Occidentalis) "Lacie" & "Oreo"
0.0.2 Green Tree Python-(Morelia Viridis)Biak type-"Smog" & Sorong type- "un-named"
2.0 Canines Husky-Cody & Husky/Shepard-Trail
0.1 Wife-Michele
2.0 Kids-Chris & Bodhi(still in the oven)

It can take years. Some belive biaks never stop changing. I have a 3 year old female who is still changing.

Hey Jules,
Thanks for posting that series of pictures of your Biak. I just picked up an adult, and saw that there were some patterns outlining what are the bars or white saddles on the dorsum, which appeared to me to be more like that which you see on a red baby. The pictures you posted completely confirmed my notion and theory on it. I know now, that I'll be breeding some red line Biaks. At least that likelihood is greater than it once was with my Biaks that started out as yellow babies.
-Angel
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my biak yearling started going tan from red at least a month ago and is still brown But my Sorong yellow started going a few days ago and is now a green yellow bellied Beauty.C
AWESOME

>>my biak yearling started going tan from red at least a month ago and is still brown But my Sorong yellow started going a few days ago and is now a green yellow bellied Beauty.C
>>AWESOME

Glad to hear it, my sorong has been changing for about two weeks now. A litle more green everyday now. I hope this is a case of good things come to those who wait. Clint
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0.1 Colombian Boa-(Boa Constrictor Imperator) "Honey"
1.0 Hogg Isle Boa-(Boa Constrictor Imperator) "Peeker"
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa-(Epicrates Cenchria) "Houdini"
1.1 Argentine Boa-(Boa Constrictor Occidentalis) "Lacie" & "Oreo"
0.0.2 Green Tree Python-(Morelia Viridis)Biak type-"Smog" & Sorong type- "un-named"
2.0 Canines Husky-Cody & Husky/Shepard-Trail
0.1 Wife-Michele
2.0 Kids-Chris & Bodhi(New born 9/14/05)