ASK: What kind of tokay morph is it??

eightyeighth · #1 02-02-2010, 01:25 PM

is it melanistic gold spotted??
did u know dat??

**Riverside Reptiles** · #2 02-02-2010, 01:42 PM

I'm not sure what you would call it. But it's very pretty!

tokeh · #3 02-03-2010, 06:47 AM

i don't know eather but it is a beautifull one.
maybe a mix

Ophidiophile · #4 02-03-2010, 12:46 PM

Awesome tokay. I think you could validly call that a gold-spotted melanistic.

Ingo · #5 02-04-2010, 06:48 AM

or golden spotted stressed...

Green-eyed Gecko · #6 02-04-2010, 05:54 PM

hi everyone,
this tokay male is not a kind of melanistic. "psychadelic" is a funny morph name that is used for it sometimes!

i'm not a big fan of those morph-names cause most morphs you can see on the internet at the moment originate from little populations somewere in asia and aren't morph creatinons of any breeders. you can find tokay populations all over the whole area of asia. so it's clear that there are existing some populations that have developed other colorations.
but at least when i think about it twice... it's maybe better to find different names for them otherwise it would be more complicated to distinguish all those morphs!

at the moment i've two big males of this coloration and i can't find me females for them! so if anybody will come to hamm this march who has some other interesting morphs or a "psychadelic"female

for an exchange let me know! i would offer this male you can see on the photo.

by the way -
like you can see on the photo these tokays can change their color from dark grey to a very lightful kind of blue - most of the time they stay in this kind of blue! only the yellow pattern are always the same!
on my photo's he stards getting darker of corse he was sressed but that isn't the only reason for them changing their color

i hope i could help you a bit!

best regards georg

Ophidiophile · #7 02-04-2010, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Green-eyed Gecko

hi everyone,
this tokay male is not a kind of melanistic. "psychadelic" is a funny morph name that is used for it sometimes!

How do you know for sure it is not a melanistic Tokay? I think whether the one asked about in the original post is a gold spotted melanistic or just a gold spotted normal (which is what "psychedelic" appears to be) depends on whether the animal remains the color it is in the original post or whether (as Ingo indicated) it is just showing stress colors and lightens to a more normal blue gray after a time.

Green-eyed Gecko · #8 02-05-2010, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Ophidiophile

How do you know for sure it is not a melanistic Tokay? I think whether the one asked about in the original post is a gold spotted melanistic or just a gold spotted normal (which is what "psychedelic" appears to be) depends on whether the animal remains the color it is in the original post or whether (as Ingo indicated) it is just showing stress colors and lightens to a more normal blue gray after a time.

what ever - it's your opinion!
i stay at the point - it's not a yellow spotted melanistic! i know that tokays can change their everyday color from time to time because of several reasons (stress, mating color, temperature, the color of the underground they are sitting on, if it's day or night and so on and so force)!
i have different kinds of melanistic tokays! - so i would say i have good impression how such morphs look like!
on third picture i've posted you can see the same animal i posted yesterday! it's dark... i know... but even my normal tokays can get really dark from time to time and my melanistics bright!

here's the kind of morph i mean it could be! it's an animal from kevin!
Available Animals - CB PAIRS Heterozygous for Psychadelic Tokay - Powered by PhotoPost Classifieds

best regards

Ophidiophile · #9 02-05-2010, 09:20 AM

Just curious, is this a gold spotted melanistic or a psychadelic [sic]?

Green-eyed Gecko · #10 02-05-2010, 09:35 AM

no it's definitely a gold spotted psychadelic melanist!

well i would say it's the same problem like with the blue headed greens and olive greens... i do have animals that have no blue head and they are all over their whole body is in a dark green and than i have animals with a bright green and the blue head. they all are able to change they color for the same reasons i added for the gold or yellow spotted animals. that why i prefer to say green tokays!

and at least i prefer to say yellow or gold spotted tokays!