Pink Red Eyes

[viper69]

This is interesting, new to me. I think some morphs are definitely not as pretty as the wild type animal. However, this was so unusual to see....

http://www.frogforum.net/tree-frogs/26967-pink-red-eye-tree-frogs.html

 

[MarkmD]

I agree They are very pretty.

 

[Najakeeper]

Wow, those are beautiful!

 

[myrmecophile]

Eeewwwww, way to ruin a lovely animal.

 

[viper69]

Eeewwwww, way to ruin a lovely animal.

That's what I thought, to each their own! I skimmed a bit, so don't quote me, evidently there's a naturally occurring melanistic form of the red eyed tree frog ( I THINK ), and when the two were bred together, out came some pink ones, completely unexpected it seems.

 

[MatthewM1]

I don't see how producing a color variant of an animal is "ruining" it. It's not like these were created by injecting them with dyes.

The poor "colored" African clawed frogs they are selling in pet stores are animals being ruined.

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[viper69]

I don't see how producing a color variant of an animal is "ruining" it. It's not like these were created by injecting them with dyes.

The poor "colored" African clawed frogs they are selling in pet stores are animals being ruined.

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It isn't ruining the native population nor normal phase ones, different genes of course.

However, to give you an example of ruining, I'll use Leopard Geckos. Great lizards. I owned them before there were morphs, when the phrase "high yellow" was not even genetically proven. Now many years I can't find a single vendor at large reptile shows which has normal, wild type lep gex generally. In fact, I spoke with one vendor who is trying to bring those back by selective breeding other currently existing mutations. Sure they might get lep gex that look like wild type, but they won't wild type at all.

I even ask vendors if they have any, and they don't. I KNOW some people still breed them, but it's rare.

 

[bugmankeith]

They are cool you can see some organs! But why are the eyes darker in color when the body is light, shouldn't the eyes be red or pink?

 

[viper69]

They are cool you can see some organs! But why are the eyes darker in color when the body is light, shouldn't the eyes be red or pink?

Why would you think they should be pink? There are many examples of animals have pure white bodies, and black eyes.

I THINK this type of red eye is what produced the pink ones if what I read was accurate.....

http://www.frogforum.net/tree-frogs/23749-red-eye-tree-frog-very-different.html