The albinoes are breeding! I didn't catch anything being born unfortunately, but I took these pictures when they were probably around 5-10 hours old. As you can see, there is an incredible amount of variation (yes, all these are albino, all have red eyes). Like albino Carpets etc they look much more dull when they are tiny babies (which is why you rarely see pictures of hatchling albino Carpets! But hey, I won't be so shy, it's cool to see them and how much they change ).
I still haven't really worked out how to tell what a baby will look like as an adult, but it seems that generally the redder ones stay a rich red/orange and the duller ones become much more pale... but there is obviously much more to it than that and the adults vary as much as the babies. It's difficult to find any two babies which look alike.
Pretty exciting stuff!
And a couple of pictures of older ones for comparison (these might have been posted before, sorry!). I would love to be able to get a big pile of adults together to take variation photographs like the above ones!
I still haven't really worked out how to tell what a baby will look like as an adult, but it seems that generally the redder ones stay a rich red/orange and the duller ones become much more pale... but there is obviously much more to it than that and the adults vary as much as the babies. It's difficult to find any two babies which look alike.
Pretty exciting stuff!
And a couple of pictures of older ones for comparison (these might have been posted before, sorry!). I would love to be able to get a big pile of adults together to take variation photographs like the above ones!