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08-Dec-06, 02:32 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Melbourne, Australia Gender:  | | | GTP Colour Change Mystery solved!!
Supposedly...this is the answer to their dramatic colour change!! http://science.physorg.com/news84643878.html
(apologies if this has already been posted) |
08-Dec-06, 02:47 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-06 Location: Vic Gender: | | | | Makes sense.
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[5:55:17] ihaveherps: pfft i took a dare at work to eat a chilli some blokes dad grew..... within 10 mins i was sh***ing fire..... have been applying lucas paw paw cream to my date daily since and every day a bit of my shpinc skin has been peeling off..... 3rd degree burns from a pepper.... best $20 i have ever made
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08-Dec-06, 02:51 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: CQ | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jordo  Makes sense. |
yeah i agree, enviroment being the cause for evolution of colour...... who would have guessed....lol
Ive also heard they prey on large moths when younger
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08-Dec-06, 02:55 PM
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"The juveniles remained outside the rainforest where they hunted small prey such as skinks and cockroaches."
| What the f...!!!!?
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08-Dec-06, 02:55 PM
|  | IrRegular Member Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Melbourne Age/Gender: 17 | | | | yeah, it has some points i guess. |
08-Dec-06, 02:58 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: Far North Qld | | | | good theory on the colour. Just not sure about where they mention the juveniles eating cockroaches though ....... |
08-Dec-06, 03:00 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Nov-03 Location: Melbourne, Australia Gender: | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MrBredli What the f...!!!!? |
Don't tell me you've never fed yours roaches!!!!! OMG!  ......... 
Last edited by moosenoose; 08-Dec-06 at 03:00 PM.
Reason: Stupid dumb mother spellin'
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08-Dec-06, 03:07 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: melbourne australia Age: 45 | | | | baby green tree have been supposedly observed eating large moths and cockroaches..
not totally unbelievable
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08-Dec-06, 03:15 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Melbourne Age: 23 | | | | alway wondered why the young were bright yellow, i suppose this makes sense.
never heard about them eating insects before though. |
08-Dec-06, 04:19 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-04 Location: The far and bewildered mountainside of the strange region of Carpathia Age/Gender: 33 | | | | Doesnt really tell us much more than what many private keepers probably believed to begin with.
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So shedding dead skin, working true colours loose
Renewing the red in their eyes
They coil like sin within thinning excuse
Cold-blooded to sharpen the lies.
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08-Dec-06, 04:22 PM
| | | | "Doesnt really tell us much more than what many private keepers probably believed to begin with"
Your right, that was always the theory, this is just proof. |
08-Dec-06, 05:26 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-05 Location: QLD | | | | they also hang around creeks and marsh areas where they spend alot of time in the reeds hunting small frogs. |
08-Dec-06, 06:05 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Tamworth Gender: | | | | so do you think after generations and generations of captive breeding this colouring will start to fade out? |
08-Dec-06, 06:10 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-06 Location: Vic Gender: | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by codeth so do you think after generations and generations of captive breeding this colouring will start to fade out? | Possibly, but probably not in our lifetime.
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[5:55:17] ihaveherps: pfft i took a dare at work to eat a chilli some blokes dad grew..... within 10 mins i was sh***ing fire..... have been applying lucas paw paw cream to my date daily since and every day a bit of my shpinc skin has been peeling off..... 3rd degree burns from a pepper.... best $20 i have ever made
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08-Dec-06, 06:28 PM
| | | | TrueBlue,
Is that info your own or somebody else's? | | |
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