melanistic tegu

fwlion · New Member Joined: Oct 23, 2007 Posts: 1

has there ever been one I would REALLY be interested in an all black tegu

or could it be accomplished through selective breeding

tupinambis · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:43 am Post subject:

Yes, as a matter of fact there are. At our Brazilian facility we used to have an all black male as well as a nearly completely white (non-albino, non-leucistic) male Tupinambis merianae.

DaveDragon · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:09 am Post subject:

Can you get any pictures???
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0.1 B&W Argentine Tegu, 1.1 Blue Tegu (29 EGGS IN THE INCUBATOR!!), 1.0 Red Tegu
1.2 Ball Pythons, 0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa, 1.0 Suriname Boa, 0.1 Dumeril Boa
2.1.3 Bearded Dragons, 1.0 Veiled Chameleon, 0.0.1 Tokay Gecko, 0.1 Cuban Rock Iguan

tupinambis · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:50 pm Post subject:

If you re-read my post, the operative words in there were "used to have". At the time of their existence, I didn't have a digital camera, and since then they have passed on.

DaveDragon · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject:

I don't have to re-read it. I assumed you were studying them, so wouldn't you have taken pictures?? Or were they "farmed" for scientific experiments and what they looked like didn't matter??
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0.1 B&W Argentine Tegu, 1.1 Blue Tegu (29 EGGS IN THE INCUBATOR!!), 1.0 Red Tegu
1.2 Ball Pythons, 0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa, 1.0 Suriname Boa, 0.1 Dumeril Boa
2.1.3 Bearded Dragons, 1.0 Veiled Chameleon, 0.0.1 Tokay Gecko, 0.1 Cuban Rock Iguan

tupinambis · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:07 pm Post subject:

Like I said, I didn't have a digital camera with me at that time. Truth be told, they died of old age.