Tic tac Gtp Update

[Brandon Osborne]

As far as I know, anything with melanin can be considered melanistic. It's whether or not some should be called Hyper-melanistic that should be the question.

There are several adult chondros with much more black pigment than the animal I posted. I think the term melanistic gets thrown around, and for the sake of chondros, it is used for those that exibit a large amount of black.....something chondros do not normally express. For an animal that is normally solid green, I do think the term melanistic or hyper-melanistic is appropriate for those with large amounts of black.

The term "mite-phase" was once used for chondro will black speckling, but these days, the more black animals are referred to melanistic phase and the condition seems to be inheritable in some lines.

If I can get permission to post pics of some melanistic chondros, I'll put them up for example. There are plenty around.

[Chuck]

Brandon

Thanks for the reply, when I said would you consider adult real melanistic animals that was a poor choice of words on my part.Hyper Melanistic would have been better. I was intrested because greg maxwell says that he calls them melanistic phase animals, and I was wondering if that was because a majority of them loose there dark pigmentation into adulthood thus not really making them a melanistic animal. I am sure I could poke around and find examples of hyper melanistic Chondros myself, I was just being lazy so don't worry about posting pics unless you really want to, thanks again.

Chuck

[Brandon Osborne]

Brandon

Thanks for the reply, when I said would you consider adult real melanistic animals that was a poor choice of words on my part.Hyper Melanistic would have been better. I was intrested because greg maxwell says that he calls them melanistic phase animals, and I was wondering if that was because a majority of them loose there dark pigmentation into adulthood thus not really making them a melanistic animal. I am sure I could poke around and find examples of hyper melanistic Chondros myself, I was just being lazy so don't worry about posting pics unless you really want to, thanks again.

Chuck

Ok, I see you were thinking the same as I. While I understand Greg mentions the term "phase", there are lots of sub-adult to adult animals that I would consider to be "melanistic/hyper-mel" animals. I see what I can do just to show others....and I love looking at unique chondros.

[DavidG]

http://www.chondrolicious.com/about.htm

Sense this is his site, I don't think Marcial will mind it being posted.

Brandon, I started a reply to your pics last night but got busy with non-computer related stuff. You're animals are amazing, and that is kind of the bad part. You display the best of when it comes to tri colors.

http://signalherp.com/green_tree_pythons.htm

Another public site, and still not a direct link to the animals in reference. If you troll on here a bit you will find some animals displaying a lot of yellow, blue, and green. Then again you will find some displaying a lot of green, with little blue and yellow. Both are considered tri colors to me, but this is a matter of personal opinion.

[DSGB]

Ok, I see you were thinking the same as I. While I understand Greg mentions the term "phase", there are lots of sub-adult to adult animals that I would consider to be "melanistic/hyper-mel" animals. I see what I can do just to show others....and I love looking at unique chondros.

A phase isnt constant so technically you could call a yellow neonate a "high-yellow phase"