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Light coloured Alpine

rigsby

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Been keeping an eye on this one for a while now, its so much lighter coloured than the rest of last years brood and the stripe down the back is orange. Compair it to the rest.
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junior and mother.

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feeding time

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close up

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with mother again

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from a distance.
The photo's don't really show the true colour but you can get some sort of idea.
 

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That´s a beautiful animal. What subespecies are they? I think i recall seeing some pics of lightly coloured apuanus. Anyway that´s a stunner.
 

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Nice pics Ian. I have a lighter coloured one in the group you gave me, but mine are still terrestrial.
 

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They're from the same breeding but this one decided to stay in the water and grew much faster.
 
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Yes I had 1 or 2 lightly colored M. a. apuanus in my group I raised last year. They have maintained their light colors at over a year old.
 
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Cool... those bright/pale colours reminds me to apuanus pattern too. Really interesting to see that it is possible to keep CAPTIVE BREEDING inexpectatus.
 
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