Redfoot Klaus

[Raymo2477]

This is Klaus he's a bit over two. He looks to be marbling on his plastron. Will this also happen to his carpace?

Also any idea as to locality?

Thanks!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I've never had any marbling or even seen any first hand. But, I think that that is marbling. I'd be very pleased to see that.

 

[stojanovski92113]

Awesome!!! I think I'm seeing marbling on my one redfoot too! How big/old is your redfoot?

 

[Phenomenalhm]

What is marbling?

 

[Raymo2477]

He's two and a quarter... Marbling a light speckling that occurs on some redfoots.

 

[Raymo2477]

Here's a marbled redfoot.

 

[Turtlepete]

Not marbling, or not what I'd usually call marbling, anyways. I've had several juveniles display the same white markings/line along the middle of the plastron, just like yours. It's pretty common. Never spreads to the carapace and usually fades away as they reach adulthood.
Marbling is almost never present in any red foots except Cherryheads. Your's is not a cherry head, and therefore I highly doubt he will ever marble.

 

[abclements]

To me, that looks like some marbling. As turtlepete said above, sometimes it goes away. With uvb exposure, it so,regimes will darken to an almost indistinguishable black. Now on the other hand, if may be the start of a very rare case of northern marbling, which would be super cool! I don't have a picture of when my cherry started to marble, but it did start something like that. Then little white specks started developing between his schutes on his carapace.

 

[Raymo2477]

Well no one's answered my original question on locality...any ideas?

 

[abclements]

Oops sorry, missed that question lol if you get us a picture of his head (from the top) and a front view of his legs, we might be able to help out.

I just assumed northern because everybody was talking about the marbling lol

Also, where did you get him?