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    Which morphs "age" well??

    I have recently been looking at lots of different morphs, babies to adults, and have noticed some morphs, in my opinion "age" better. They either get better with age (it seems to be like the orange ghost/hypo and morphs mixed with og, like cinnamon, mojave, etc) I even find some normals age better, keep their color and such.
    Obviously I know a lot depends on quality of the gene(s) in the morph, but what morphs, in your opinion, age well.
    Also, does anyone have pictures of older/bigger morph snakes? Where is all the 5+ year old hypos, spiders, mojaves, and all the other older morphs? I know there is WOBP
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    there are quite a few morphs that stay stunning all the way into adulthood.

    Piebalds for example. sure, the dark regions get darker, but the white stays perfectly white forever.

    also blue eye lucys, black eye lucys, and ivories. also albino and hypo.

    darker combos like onyx or gargoyle or enchi mojave also age well.

    then there are morphs that can be sort of fixed one way or another. many pastels brown out, also many combos with pastel like bees and lemonblasts. But a very high quality pastel, like citrus pastel or lemon pastel, can fix the problem.

    or axanthics, they also brown out a bit, which takes away from the nice silver grey. But somehow fire axanthics tend to stay beautiful, the fire gene seems to fix it.
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    Fire ages very well, actually gets lighter and brighter. Here's a youngster male(pretty ugly ducking as far as fires go) and then a couple shots of him a few years later. I think he looks much better now but it's all a matter of opinion.






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    Re: Which morphs "age" well??

    I like the way mojaves and mojave combos age. Babies are pretty, but adults get this pretty faded color to em.

    That's personal preference, though. I love the way adult bumblebees look but they don't all age the same and definitely don't retain the same colors that babies do - I just like how they look when they grow up, too.

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    Re: Which morphs "age" well??

    My citrus pastel ivory is getting brighter with every shed. When he was born he was slightly darker than a champagne, now he looks like a BEL with just a very few stripes on his head.

    My pewter is going more of a dark gray as she ages, which I think is cool, though some people may not care for it.

    I have an RDR lesser/platty daddy that is also brightening up as she ages.

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