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tazman

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:( hi. quick and easy question for you herpers.

ive had conflicting answers to this question.
how can you tell what colour a snake will turn
out.also does the colour form from the head to
the tail,or all over at once.what age normally
would the adult colour be totally formed. see easy
question.

cheers tazman
 
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Well, not THAT easy a question. At hatching, it can sometimes be very difficult to determine what color a snake will be at adulthood. Yes, it is easy to tell a normal from an amel, but not as easy to tell how the normal will look as an adult, or even the amel. You can get a fairly good idea by what the parents look like, by comparing siblings, and by experience. But sometimes, you really don't know until it happens.

I've had certain snakes "change" color during their first 6 months, then even more over the next 2 years. IMO, you have a pretty good idea as to what the snake's final coloration will be when it is 2-3 yrs old.

A good example of how a snake can change:

This anery A motley/stripe is about 6 months old in this pic. At hatching, he was basically solid black pattern on light grey.
 
And now, same snake 1 year after the first pic was taken. He hasn't changed much since (4 months ago) and he's not yet 2 yrs old. I do expect him to lose some of the background color over the next year (his older brother did) but he does look alot different than most of his siblings. (I'll post a pic of one of his sisters next for comparison.)
 
This is just a head shot of a sister, but that's were most of the color shows on the male. All the hatchlings I kept from this clutch (7 total) vary in color from black/grey to the colorful male. Mom is a black/grey anery A stripe and Dad is a ghost motley bordering on a pastel ghost motley.
 
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