captive bred ordinoes?

[katach]

Oh, ok. I wonder if any of the babies I have now will turn out red?

[RedSidedSPR]

I doubt it.

But If you look at "orange" easterns, flames, and most morphs they won't look like much as babies, then they color up to the most amazing snake you've seen!

[katach]

One can wish!

[kibakiba]

Well, NWs are blanked out as babies, they could look like a piece of long skinny mold and grow up to be grey with a red or blue stripe. You wouldn't expect to see a black, white and blue baby from a black/orange x brown/white.

[ConcinusMan]

That's true. Baby northwesterns are nothing compared to what they are when they color up. As they mature, the color they're going to be, then makes itself apparent. You can't even begin to guess what they will look like when they're babies. 6-12 months old and starts to become apparent but they continue to change. "blanked out" is a good description. They're generally born very plain and inconspicuous. The colors come in later. Some of the babies born from my red stripe girl began to develop red in their stripes, spotty at first, at around 5 months old. But not all of them did, and even at a year old, they continue to change.

[kibakiba]

Yeah, Hades is about 2 (based on his size) and he's changing every day... His black is getting darker and his orange is coming in.

[d_virginiana]

My blue eastern didn't have even a hint of his blue color (or any color) until he was over a year old, but now he's a very vibrant blue green. As a baby he just looked like a strip of tire rubber Are there any types that start out really bright and vibrant, like mini versions of the adults?

[kibakiba]

Well, Runt has stayed the same and she's 1 year away from being an adult. She was a year old when I caught her, though... I've had thumbelina since birth and he's stayed the same for the most part, he's losing his dorsal stripe.