Green tree patterns vs. color observation

Let me know if you think there's anything to this... We have 8 related green trees held back from 2009 and every red/brown neonate had large diamonds on the back and every yellow one has small spikes that are basically just the border color rather than the large, black-edged, white diamonds on the reds (see photos below). I recently got a chance to see some 2008 holdbacks from the original parents and every one of them was the same way.

I've never read anything about this and even Maxwell's book doesn't mention it to my knowledge. More than seeing who has similar ones, I'm really curious to see if anyone has a yellow with diamonds or a red with the thin spikes. Is this a species-wide thing or what?

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...9050resize.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...6-05resize.jpg

I'm sorry I can't answer your question. :oops:

But I have a question for you. Did the holdbacks show a difference when they developed their adult colors.
Did the animals that started out as yellow neos develop different patterns and colors than the animals that started out as red neos? Or did the neo color not affect the adult color at all?

That's hard to say... they're still getting their adult colors and one of them hasn't got a bit of green on him yet. The pattern stays the same though so far even in the ones that are totally green. I'm not sure if the blues (the same pattern the neos had) will last or if it will fade.

Looking at the 2008 sibs though, it looks like the juvie color doesn't have any effect. Heck, one of our '09s has actually developed a lot of black instead of turning green!

i got 2 yellows that got more like triangles and tons of the specking

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Originally Posted by ice#1

i got 2 yellows that got more like triangles and tons of the specking

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Any photos?

here's smaller of the 2 http://http://kevinfletcher.moreliav...iew/pid/321494

and here's the other
http://http://kevinfletcher.moreliav...iew/pid/321498


the bigger spots here and there on the sides are getting bigger


sorry pixs aint working right for me here is a link to my photo album it is on anouther site though
http://kevinfletcher.moreliaviridis.yuku.com/album

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Originally Posted by ice#1

sorry pixs aint working right for me here is a link to my photo album it is on anouther site though
http://kevinfletcher.moreliaviridis.yuku.com/album

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Those of us who don't have an account there can't view them - you have to log in before it'll let you look.

As far as getting the pics to show up here, at least part of the reason that's not working is that you're not linking directly to the images - right click on the image on the website where it is and choose "open image in new window" or "copy image URL," then use that url in [ img ] tags and it should (probably) work. It might not if yuku.com won't allow a direct link like that, but it's worth a shot.

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Originally Posted by olstyn

Those of us who don't have an account there can't view them - you have to log in before it'll let you look.

As far as getting the pics to show up here, at least part of the reason that's not working is that you're not linking directly to the images - right click on the image on the website where it is and choose "open image in new window" or "copy image URL," then use that url in [ img ] tags and it should (probably) work. It might not if yuku.com won't allow a direct link like that, but it's worth a shot.

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i tried the link useing the insert image tag i'll try again
http://kevinfletcher.moreliaviridis....iew/pid/321498
http://kevinfletcher.moreliaviridis....iew/pid/321494
only way i can link them it works doing it adding the links to go to there from other forums but other forum posted pics on from there is listed at yuku page to go to that forum so i'm not sure

only way it works for me is to link with-out using the insert image

Those URLs still don't link directly to the images - if it doesn't have a filename with .jpg at the end, it's not going to work. You could simply upload the images you're trying to show to the gallery here at ball-pythons.net and then it'd be easy.

to large to upload here