Coral - Black Tartarian and Bing Cherries

[N2TORTS]

New Neo-nates coloring...........
that could fit the bill

 

[cdmay]

Neat.
Have a question: Are these typical of what you get from their parents, or are these odd colored?
If they are not typical of what you've hatched from the pair (or female) before, what do you attribute the change to?
What was the diet of the female prior to her producing the eggs?

Here is my reason for asking, a number of years back I fed a couple of my females a lot of Mazuri Tortoise chow over the summer while they were breeding. I was really busy with work and didn't offer them the same varied diet that I usually do and so I depended (read that as, I got lazy) on the Mazuri.
The eggs I got later from the summer's breeding all seemed fine and hatched well. But the resulting hatchlings were mostly more subdued in color than usual and many were kind of yellowish orange.
I'm trying to learn if other breeders have experienced the same thing after feeding a lot of Mazuri to their females.

 

[N2TORTS]

Neat.
Have a question: Are these typical of what you get from their parents, or are these odd colored?
If they are not typical of what you've hatched from the pair (or female) before, what do you attribute the change to?
What was the diet of the female prior to her producing the eggs?

Here is my reason for asking, a number of years back I fed a couple of my females a lot of Mazuri Tortoise chow over the summer while they were breeding. I was really busy with work and didn't offer them the same varied diet that I usually do and so I depended (read that as, I got lazy) on the Mazuri.
The eggs I got later from the summer's breeding all seemed fine and hatched well. But the resulting hatchlings were mostly more subdued in color than usual and many were kind of yellowish orange.
I'm trying to learn if other breeders have experienced the same thing after feeding a lot of Mazuri to their females.

Carl …these are just some different mating’s between different animals. I have been surprised as well of the wild color combos, with most a mango/ orange than a fire engine red. I actually don’t feed Mazuri all that often…as I have plenty of access to home grown greens and flowers alike. I would say maybe 2 cupfulls a week on both the Cherries/Hypo sides spread through out each side of their enclosures which is about 1200sf per side if not more….just let them –Hunt n Peck for the stuff.

Parents Head shots

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[N2TORTS]

Oh yea …forgot to mention…LOVE your outside thinking of the box. As dietary intake could produce a different outcome within different years and Fauna alike. Another great example would be Flamingos and Salmon who actually obtain their coloring through the pigments from organisms they eat

 

[cdmay]

Oh yea …forgot to mention…LOVE your outside thinking of the box. As dietary intake could produce a different outcome within different years and Fauna alike. Another great example would be Flamingos and Salmon who actually obtain their coloring through the pigments from organisms they eat

My outside the box thinking actually came from John Iverson many years ago.
He told me that the color of the plastrons of hatchling eastern mud turtles was directly related to the diet of the mother while producing the eggs within her.
Very cool stuff.
So I wondered about a potential diet change with your group.