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This is what our member has to say: One of our babies has started to turn green! Here is Selmak: Lantash is from the same clutch and his/her red markings have started ...


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12-28-2006, 03:43 PM
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GTP color change

One of our babies has started to turn green!
Here is Selmak:




Lantash is from the same clutch and his/her red markings have started to fade, but there is no sign of green yet:



They are both now 9.5 months old and doing very very well. Baby GTPs colour is yellow or red/brown. They start to change their colour at the age of 6 to 12 months. It takes them between 15 days and 15 months to turn green completely.
Thanks for looking!

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 I helped move the meter!   12-28-2006, 03:46 PM
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You have always known how to make me drool Andrea!!! They are absolutely beautiful, glad you posted some recent pics.
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very nice....love trhat inbetween phase
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Very awesome. Never get tired of those.
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those look great! thanks for sharing.
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Cool looking.
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More green

Here is Selmak just two days after I started this post:
The green is coming in strong (by the minute, it seems!)



I'll post more as it progresses. Thanks for looking!

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What beautiful specimens!I have never worked with GTB's before-When theyre born are they little nippers?

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Excuse me Green Tree Python's*

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Wow, that's really cool! How does the color change work, physiologically? It's not appearing with a shed, but coming on gradually in between sheds? Is it a pigment in the skin that lies dormant until a certain age and then is activated somehow? Obviously, I don't know much about this, but it's really neat!
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