Light coloured Alpine

[rigsby]

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.

junior and mother.

feeding time

close up

with mother again

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

 

[Azhael]

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.

 

[rigsby]

They're inexpectatus.

 

[louise]

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

 

[rigsby]

They're from the same breeding but this one decided to stay in the water and grew much faster.

 

[andrew_taricha]

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.

 

[Dewaver]

Beautiful animals. Are C.B. inexpectatus??

 

[sean]

i think these are a great type of alpine hear are mine:

 

[Dewaver]

Cool... those bright/pale colours reminds me to apuanus pattern too. Really interesting to see that it is possible to keep CAPTIVE BREEDING inexpectatus.