"Special" tokay female...

[Riverside Reptiles]

I bought this girl a few years ago from a friend. At the time that I purchased her, she was dark gray with light gray spots and lacked any sort of red, blue, green, etc.
I purchased her with the thought that she perhaps was a true anerythristic tokay (which, by definition, she is).

Over time though she began to loose some of the gray and gain white patches.
So I thought, "Ok, this girl is going to turn into a calico.
That was fine with me.

Now however, she continues to lose her gray more and more.
Also note the very peach head (as well as some other "peachy" parts on her) with silver highlights.
At this point, I'm pretty certain that she's going to become a full blown "leucistic"!
Obviously I can't say 100% for sure, and I think she's amazing as is.
But I can't wait to see how she's looking 6 months from now!
My bet is that she'll be completely white.

Here's some pics of her from last night:



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[Riverside Reptiles]

Here's how she looked last year:



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[zuper8]

wow! It reminds me of a grey horse starting black and getting lighter with age. I like that there is still so much to know about the colors of this species.

 

[billewicz]

wow! It reminds me of a grey horse starting black and getting lighter with age. I like that there is still so much to know about the colors of this species.

This further demonstrates the "Progressive", (Continually changing) nature of the whole group of "Calico/Pied/Leucistic/Melanistic Tokay color morphs.

We have seen many different adults representing various stages of these changes come in as imports. The notion that they were all different morphs does not seem so true any more.