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Question about Amel morph.

GSDlover

GSDlover

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When hatchings are growing up and shedding do their main colour go darker red or do they go orange?

When I've seen adult Amel's they look mostly orange and white...
But each shed my Amel has he's turning darker red.

So I'm curious if this is normal.

Thanks.
 
Depends on the bloodline really. Some can end up very red, some very orange. Both are "normal" (if there is such a thing with Corns!). There's a wide variation within the morph. The best way to get some idea of the potential adult colouration, is to see the parents.

The yellow pigments develop more slowly than black or red, so any that will be orange are likely to show this slightly later.

As a similar thing, I've hatched odd Amels that have been so pale that hey might have passed for Snows. After 2 or 3 sheds, they looked like standard Amels. The colour changes in the early months can be pretty drastic.
 
Amels have almost as much variation to them as normals. After all, Candy canes and Sunglows and Reverse Okeetees are all "amels" but are drastically different from each other.

Some amels are really vibrant, some are really light, and some form this sort of mottled orange/yellow/white that has caused many to refer to them as 'vomitmels'.
 
Hm, alright thanks guys.

Just curious as of what was going on, guess I just have a really red guy.
I wonder if he'll continue to get darker, it's neat how red he is.

He also has... a rainbow boa head after his last shed (Not sure how to explain this but i'll try...) If you look at his red head scales they have an oil look to them either a purple/blue/green shine. I thought it was neat.
 
Some of it also depends upon the age of your amel. At hatching, amels are usually a bit lighter, getting more red pigment with successive sheds. However, the yellow doesn't start to come in until even later on, and that can also affect how red or orange an amel is going to look.
 
Start a photo diary of his coloration progress, in the later years once the coloration settles you may not recognize his baby scales.
 
He ate tonight and I just saw this!

I will post new pictures soon, but I can never get a good picture of how deep his red is lately. He's been getting such a nice deep red each shed.
 
Very off topic, but you could be my 14 year old's long lost twin :)

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ahaha, I love the long lost twin.

Cute!

and here are those pictures I promised.
I tried to capture the red as much as possible!
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and he's getting darker with every shed, can't wait to see what he's going to look like as an adult.
 
Thank you! I'm wondering what his parents were/look like.

and today I finally saw the colour change in his eyes, you can see the orange + red pupil.
I've been checking out his eyes a lot since they're usually all red, so I thought that was neat with todays photo shoot too.
 
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