Purple Power

[N2TORTS]

A little shy and brand spanking new .......another "lovely lavender" has arrived in the new world.....

 

[Onidara]

Your gonna have to keep both, if your lucky they will be a male/female

 

[Anyfoot]

A little shy and brand spanking new .......another "lovely lavender" has arrived in the new world.....

Hi Jeff. Your getting some wierd and wonderful colors lately.
I know you have your hypo project.
But where do these fall in. Are you just trying different combos of "standard" male and female reds to achieve such as these?
Do these guys have any of the hypo gene?
Are they northerns or cherries?

Or does your new camera have very advanced contrast capabilities. joking.

 

[N2TORTS]

Hi Jeff. Your getting some wierd and wonderful colors lately.
I know you have your hypo project.
But where do these fall in. Are you just trying different combos of "standard" male and female reds to achieve such as these?
Do these guys have any of the hypo gene?
Are they northerns or cherries?

Or does your new camera have very advanced contrast capabilities. joking.

No .....No Camera Tricks or paint shop Here .......



The Hypo *Hypomelanistic* is a recessive gene. Thus somewhere down the line BOTH tortoises must carry the gene to produce a “visual” Hypo animal. We have a few different adults who are pure-line *visual hypo animals. Thus everything produced from clutches from mating’s within these animals will be 100% visual hypo animals- no guess work. Although we do produce some Het for Hypo Hatchlings as well. This is done with one of our males mating with the phenotype(regular looking- using the term loosely) Redfoots. The babies come out more “regular” looking although carry the Hypo gene and can be bred down the line with another Het or Hypo and produce a percentage of visual hypo’s within their clutches. The wild colors being produced here at the Cove’ are most likely a result in a combination of T+ albino and Hypermelanistic and or Anerythristic / Axanthic gene coding. Every new hatchling is a surprise in itself. Definitely ONE- OF - A KIND- REDFOOTS

Here is a great webpage from a garter snake breeder that goes into more detail and explanation……

“Pigmentation-Let's look at a few of the known basic aspects of pigmentation and the how and what causes these morphs to look the way they do. Let's start be defining a few terms first. Chromatophores-these are cells that contain pigments and also may have some degree of reflecting qualities. Within the group of choromatophores there are melanophores (which contain black and brown producing pigments such as melanin), xanthophores (containing yellow producing pigments such as xanthin), erythrophores (red producing pigments-erythrin), iridophors (producing reflective iridescent structural color), leucophores (white) and cyanophores (blue).

Sometimes the removal of pigment colors results in more pronounced reflective iridescent structural colors and more white remaining.

Anerythristic is a genetic mutation that causes the lack of erythrin The terms anerythristic and axanthic with their respective, and is often simply a guess a what is occuring on the biochemical pigment level.”

http://gartersnakemorph.com/Snake-Genetics.php