what kind of darwins are these?

[jakawak]

hi guys
i have 2 darwins, boy and girl and the have a dark top end with a pinkish reduced black bottom end and was just wondering if their was a ''term'' used to describe their patern?

ill put a cupple pics up dont know if u can notice their colours very well but worth a try, if it isnt enough just ask and i can put some more detailed close ups on.

 

[Kimberlyann]

The "pink bits" under neither look like when my probe for the heat matt gets moved and the heat matt gets to hot, which left unnoticed can result in burning your snake.
Sorry i dont know anything about darwins so i can help you there, but if you have a heat mat or heat rock you need to monitor it's heat because they dont just stop at 30degree's they can go up to 50 depending on the type

 

[SteveNT]

They're just good ole Darwins

Mine has plenty of pink too



And I dont use heat mats (live in Darwin!)

 

[waruikazi]

There is a term for them, they are called 'Young' Darwins.

Darwin's, similar to coastals, start off red and slowly lose the colour during their first year or two. They will end up looking just like a normal darwin carpet.

 

[kitten_pheonix]

From the looks of the second one its still rather young, and any pics ive seen of them as hatchies they are a pink colour and loose more of it with every shed. But the first one lookslike a standard darwin IMO

 

[SamNabz]

Standard darwin mate

 

[jakawak]

ok cool thanks guys =) just very diferent to my coastal lol. their heat mats are watched all the time i have thermostat for each of my reptiles with 2 extra thermomiters in each tank, one in hot spot one in cold spot. for my beardy he has a termostat that controlls the light and the heat lamp =) thanks again everyone i just thought that the little bit of black missing in their pattern mite of been some term for it. (still learning) they are 11 months old, turn 1 in december =)

 

[waruikazi]

Definately nothing to do with heating or any new morph.

 

[Reptilefreak95]

also darwins are arboreal, i noticed u didnt have an upright enclosure. Just a tip, they'll be happier if thay can climb LOTS and dont worry about the pink, they are just losing their red hatchy colouration, as they mature u will see their colours come out, and nice patterns btw

 

[jakawak]

also darwins are arboreal, i noticed u didnt have an upright enclosure. Just a tip, they'll be happier if thay can climb LOTS and dont worry about the pink, they are just losing their red hatchy colouration, as they mature u will see their colours come out, and nice patterns btw

ohh ok ill put some vines and stuff in with them asap =) thanks

 

[wokka]

They lose colour according to size more so than age, so that if you feed a lot , they will grow a lot and assume adult colouring at an earlier age.

 

[FusionMorelia]

carefull with the calcium based substrates, it can have some problems.

Nato

 

[Kimberlyann]

Show's how much i know about darwins then haha

 

[jakawak]

i feed them hopper mice and quails? 2 times a week or maybe once a week if they rnt hungry.

 

[Em1986]

My 2 will be 1 on the 1st of december and have the same colouration, the front end of their bodies are nice and dark and they still have the pinkness to them towards the back.

 

[Reptilefreak95]

So they have a good feeding response then? ur feeding them pretty well, they should be growing like little champs my darwin male is going thru sheds atm like wildfire, its really strange, he's 2 years old, and just randomly starts having heeps of sheds and growing loads, lol. hes 1.5m now and he eats a large rat like, once a week.

 

[PicklePants]

This is Rassilon when he was a hatchy:


And him now (1 year later):


Part of the fun with Darwins is seeing how they colour up. The female my ex has looks completely different again.