Melanistic redfoot?

[shellfreak]

Curious to get your opinions on this little hatchling. Do you think it’s a Melanistic redfoot?

 

[Relic]

VERY little red scalation on head and legs...but it's really cool. Reminds me of customized "blacked-out" sports cars. Wonder what the parents looked like?

 

[Yvonne G]

No, I doubt it. Melanistic usually means all black, or absence of color. If I'm remembering correctly, @allegraf raises quite a few black RF tortoise babies.

 

[Toddrickfl1]

Got almost the same pattern on the back scute mine has

 

[Redfoot NERD]

To "amplify" what Yvonne said - I agree that is a degree of "lack-of-color" of Melanistic.

These all came from the Brazilian pair below @Relic -

 

[Texture_Turtle]

Curious to get your opinions on this little hatchling. Do you think it’s a Melanistic redfoot?
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Close but no cigar

 

[dsgncore]

Where did you get RF black edition?[emoji38]

 

[allegraf]

Not me, I hatched one rather colorless one and kept it for kicks. Let me dig through the yard and see what he looks like now. I generally breed for high colors.

 

[Redfoot NERD]

Garden State Tortoise... https://www.gardenstatetortoise.com/ - Chris Leone - bought the pair shown.. not sure if he still has or if they produced for him.