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I was pretty excited when I saw the S. h. heros and S. h. castaneiceps mate. I finally got babies and, ...I don't know, I didn't feel as much as I thought I would when I saw them change color. Well here they are. The point was to see if the two color varieties were actually able to have offspring together. Ultimately, it would be best to hang on and see if these babies can have babies. I think that would take three years, going by the size of my other two year old pedes. They surely breed with each other along overlapping boundaries, I've seen some strange ones but not many. Obviously, it's time to separate them. Pretty cool though, right? They look like S. heros heros at first glance but they are a MUCH darker, tangerine orange with almost black terminals, unlike S. h. heros. And it you look closer, you will notice they have orange legs like the female, instead of whitish legs like S. h. heros. Looking forward to them getting a little bigger, maybe some slight color changes(?)