Hey everyone...
Not only do some of my little Eastern scrubs have orange coloring... some are significantly greener than others. I really don't know much about coloring... the term flaming has arisen but aside from the obvious connection to the orange coloring, I don't know what other ramifications it has.
Here's a pic of the green vs grey...
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08-10-2012, 12:33 PM #1Juvenile snake
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Coloring
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08-10-2012, 12:43 PM #2"Preparing For Fourth shed"
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Re: Coloring
Thats pretty cool
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08-10-2012, 12:48 PM #3Adult snake
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Looking at some of your other pictures, many do bring the flame morph to mind. I wouldn't be surprised if the ones that are cream or orangish on the flanks color up as they grow.
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08-10-2012, 01:00 PM #4Juvenile snake
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Why do you think some are green and others are more neutral dark grey?
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08-15-2012, 07:09 PM #5Banned
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Re: Coloring
Polymorphism.
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08-16-2012, 05:39 AM #6"PM Boots For Custom Title"
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Christmas
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08-10-2012, 01:55 PM #7T. radix Ranch
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Re: Coloring
Nice looking little scrubs.
Steve
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08-10-2012, 01:58 PM #8Thamnophis cymru
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The variation in colours is really nice
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08-16-2012, 05:13 AM #9"PM Boots For Custom Title"
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The easterns I've seen from around Oakland and macomb counties come in all shades of tan to bright yellow, green to dark brown to nearly black. 'Christmas' is the clearest green I've ever found. Shades of olive and brown with varying degrees of yellow are more common mid range colors. Most have a bit of red along the neck but it is uncommon for it to go beyond the first third of the body length, or to be particularly intense.
Im not sure polymorphism is the right term as they tend to be variations on the same color scheme- the intensities saturation and proportions seem to vary along pretty natural curves by locale.
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08-16-2012, 05:45 AM #10Juvenile snake
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I've experienced a little of this. My first garter was from Charlevoix county and was dark green with some fairly bright yellow. No orange. My second was from oakland county and was more of a matte inky black with not as much yellow. That snakes coloring was more pronounced than the first right after a shed.
These are 13 scrubs all born a couple weeks ago. Some are neutral some are green. Two have some really pronounced orange. Obviously the genetics of the father (whom i don't know) is interwoven here.
Being a relative newbie I wondered what else people might think about the coloring. It seems like the orange might be referred to as flaming._______________________________
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