Do all bananas lose their lavendar color as they mature?

My two year old, 1000g banana het pied male started out as a typical "banana" looking hatchling with vibrant yellow and lavendar. Now as an adult he looks like this:

http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...ce51118cba.jpg

I still think he's gorgeous and kinda prefer the tan color over the lavendar. But is this common with bananas, or do they usually keep their colors as they grow?

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This is how they age. :) Good looking boy.

I love the lavender color. How about lavender albinos? Do they lose color

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Originally Posted by sneakysnake611

I love the lavender color. How about lavender albinos? Do they lose color

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Their yellows fade a bit, but the lavender stays pretty lavender. Check out pics 2 and 3 at WOBP: http://www.worldofballpythons.com/mo...vender-albino/

It's almost exactly what my 3yr lav albino male looks like. His lavender color is about the same shade of lavender on my baby banana. Yellows, obviously, are much more faded. Personally, I think the lavender albino color ages better than banana coloring.

I have been looking into this and honestly, figuring it out has been surprisingly difficult. There are far fewer adult morph pictures running around than I would have believed, far more baby/juvenile pictures.

It's hard to tell these pythons age just from the photos, but it does appear that some "larger" ball pythons keep their coloring after they age some. That said, it does seem like almost all lighten up some.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...ac23d5b287.jpg

http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/...CoralGlow2.jpg

http://ssscales.com/wp-content/uploa...3570498_n1.jpg

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Originally Posted by Regius_049

I have been looking into this and honestly, figuring it out has been surprisingly difficult. There are far fewer adult morph pictures running around than I would have believed, far more baby/juvenile pictures.

It's hard to tell these pythons age just from the photos, but it does appear that some "larger" ball pythons keep their coloring after they age some. That said, it does seem like almost all lighten up some.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...ac23d5b287.jpg

http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/...CoralGlow2.jpg

http://ssscales.com/wp-content/uploa...3570498_n1.jpg

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That bottom and top one look especially nice! I've been trying to find if there is any way to tell from a hatchling how much color they will hold or it all bananas sort of washout as adults, but as you've said it's difficult to find pictures of adults much less before and after shots. I have also poked around trying to see if certain morphs helped bananas keep color, but again not much luck.

On that note, I've been wondering, at what age does a ball python's color stop changing? Or does it change its entire life? o:

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Originally Posted by sneakysnake611

I love the lavender color. How about lavender albinos? Do they lose color

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If you want a lavender snake that holds its color well look at a toffino. My breeder is a knockout at a bit over a year. Not quite as yellow as when he was a hatchling but defenatly more purple

this is my breeder toffino Diablo the day I bought himhttp://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psaqh4gj5z.jpgmind that this photo was taken with a good camera and under enhanced lighting
this is him a year later actually had to pull him out from a female's tub to take these two photos and again mind this was taken with my phone with just a standerd bulb in a ceiling fan so not the quality of the older photo http://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...psjp8xofha.jpghttp://i1381.photobucket.com/albums/...pspv5mkp0w.jpgas you can tell despite the crappy photos he held his color very well as all toffino do

when i bought him i was looking at a banana but saw how they faded as they aged so I found him and never looked back
price was close to the same and the colors are close enough for what i wanted

Got a pic of your breeder?

Seems like there is a lot of variability, I wish we had more photos from baby to adult. Here are some other lavender colored adults to show the spectrum:

Banana Enchi:

http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/...na%20enchi.jpg

Lavender Albino
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...1&d=1463793925

Toffino Breeder:

http://www.coreywoods.com/Toffino/To...lbino_3442.jpg