Is this a Cherry Head?
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Looks like it to me
It looks like a Guyana or other northern range redfoot. Cherryheads have a more bulbous nose and the colors on their heads are continuous, not broken up like what is pictured. Here is one of my cherryheads for comparison:
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Many non cherrtheads are brightly colored.
And some true cherries are orange, etc.
Can you include better pictures showing more of the animal?
I'm also going to say no.
And some true cherries are orange, etc.
Can you include better pictures showing more of the animal?
I'm also going to say no.
Beautiful red but I wouldn’t say cherryhead. From what I can see yours is regular carapace color and I believe Brazilian cherryheads have a marbling like the example pic. I for one prefer the yellow/orange head with red legs regular the most.
Looks like a northern. Most my northerns started out orangey/red then turned more yellow as they grow. There also looks to be a lot of scales for a Brazilian, and the nose doesn’t look bulbous like the Brazilians have.
Can we see more pictures please. Plastron.
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Its a very beautiful animal at any rate!
Agreed
It would help to ID it if you showed us his plastron, a side view of the head (to better see the nose), and the front legs (one characteristic of what are commonly called 'cherry-heads' is an enlarged scale that looks kind of like a hook or spur on the knee.)
Lots of people sell brightly colored redfoots as 'cherryheads' but real cherryheads are either a different species, a subspecies, or at least a color morph from Eastern Brazil - depending on how further research goes.
Lots of people sell brightly colored redfoots as 'cherryheads' but real cherryheads are either a different species, a subspecies, or at least a color morph from Eastern Brazil - depending on how further research goes.
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I don't see leg spurs or the single, wide, nose scale.
This is a tiny phone screen. But it looks like a remarkably beautiful common Red.
Like I said previously. A beautiful animal.
But that would be an issue if you bought it at much higher price as a Cherry.
Here baby Redfoot sell from $65 to $125
Cherries from maybe $85 to $200 depending on how saturated the color is. With beautiful, adult cherries in the $500 to $650 range and Northern Reds at $200 to $350 as nice looking adults.
The beautiful one that @Redstrike posted up, I wouldn' be surprised to see an asking price of at least the $650 figure.
Is your concern that you got what you paid for?
This is a tiny phone screen. But it looks like a remarkably beautiful common Red.
Like I said previously. A beautiful animal.
But that would be an issue if you bought it at much higher price as a Cherry.
Here baby Redfoot sell from $65 to $125
Cherries from maybe $85 to $200 depending on how saturated the color is. With beautiful, adult cherries in the $500 to $650 range and Northern Reds at $200 to $350 as nice looking adults.
The beautiful one that @Redstrike posted up, I wouldn' be surprised to see an asking price of at least the $650 figure.
Is your concern that you got what you paid for?
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