Tokay Morphs...

[billewicz]

We'll see how this little one turns out. It was originally described as Axanthic. I like Green Granite but I think that the dark areas are pied splotches and could lighten up considerably over time. It is one of a couple that came in this last group that I've never seen before.

Now, assuming I can get these two new guys pictured, turned around and healthy, does anybody see a striped Tokay in the distant future?:lol:

 

[aquamentus_11]

We'll see how this little one turns out. It was originally described as Axanthic. I like Green Granite but I think that the dark areas are pied splotches and could lighten up considerably over time. It is one of a couple that came in this last group that I've never seen before.

Now, assuming I can get these two new guys pictured, turned around and healthy, does anybody see a striped Tokay in the distant future?:lol:

nice. have you ever run across this before?

 

[billewicz]

Yes, I've seen a light white stripe in several patternless Tokay. I had several in the last set of imports we sold from last fall.

As a part of 'discovering' what the 'key' is to creating 'Calico' or 'Leucistic' Tokay, the white stripe might have something to do with it. Especially if you look at a lot of young leucistic reptiles, they have a stripe that eventually fade. In some reptiles, the normal looking 'gene carrying' parents show a faded stripe or some other visual indicator.

So, I'm going to work a few stripe to stripe pairings to see what we get. Who knows.

 

[billewicz]

Here's one from last group, female #4 has a big wide white stripe.

 

[aquamentus_11]

cool, never even knew that existed. she's got a nice olive drab thing going.

 

[billewicz]

Yeah, that was her arrival photo right out of the box from Indo. She's a patternless Olive and looked quite nice after a few sheds. The stripe would come and go.

 

[spiderlover]

this is my latest morph tokay,i call him grey&white
abit of mouth infestion..hopfully can heal up quickly

 

[danniel]

finally got super red

 

[billewicz]

:banana:Congratulations!:banana:

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

VERY nice Danniel! That's the one thing that I'm missing from my collection that I really want...a super red. Congrats!

 

[danniel]

before:

after 5 months

 

[danniel]

:banana:Congratulations!:banana:

Thanks Michael...

VERY nice Danniel! That's the one thing that I'm missing from my collection that I really want...a super red. Congrats!

Thanks Ethan..

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

Wow, you definitely put some weight on him! He's looking good!

 

[YoursTruly]

before:

after 5 months

I absolutely love this tokay =)

 

[T-ReXx]

That is an awesome super red. That is my absolute favorite of the tokay morphs.

Anyways, here's the newest two "morph" animals added to my collection. The male is the "orange spot melanistic" looking one and the female is the likely normal but slightly washed out looking with high yellow." They are still gaining weight, though they have been here over a month.

Male

Female

 

[vip87]

I'm wondering is olive = powder blue?

 

[T-ReXx]

not the same thing. powder blue patternless as olive patternless are two different recessive morphs

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[billewicz]

Agreed. The Olives are very dark, olive green and do not show the 'powder' look at night or when in season.

The powder blues have a light 'powder blue' tint to them especially during mating season. I also have what I call 'powder greens'. They are very light green, with yellow knees and toes that have a powdery green tint.

Olives one 'cool' factor is that they seem to get very big.

 

[glittery]

is it olive morph? Pls help me take a look.

 

[billewicz]

is it olive morph? Pls help me take a look.

Hello,

We've called these green Tokay with blue dots a lot of things. 'Fancy', 'Aberrant', but no, this one pictured is not an Olive.

Olives are completely patternless and very dark, olive drab green. When stressed they can be completely jet black. (And have been sold as such more than once only to settle down to become an Olive.)

Now let me say that when we breed an olive, or most any patternless green to a normal Tokay, we tend to get green bodied animals with bands of blue dots and reduced orange spots. So your Tokay could have some patternless influence, or 'markers' for het. (Ask me in a couple breeding seasons from now once I've had the chance to drill down through to see if the patternless gene is in fact in there.)

Enjoy.