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[LeeWarren]

This is a female that will begin breeding in 2009

[LeeWarren]

Female! Last pic

[master pt]

Nice looking animals, I specially like male #2.

Thanks for sharing.
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[glebopalma]

Very nice looking animals LeeWarren, but still true V. a. brachyurus.

[glebopalma]

V. a. acanthurus (true red ackie) from a good friend of me;

[Sean]

Ha, my old friend Herman Ras.

[JStroud]

The animal in the second photo of that last post looks fantastic
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[GJ]

Nice looking Ackies, I particularly like photos 5 and 6 their stunning.

[arborgoanna]

I have finally taken some photographs of the two V. a. acanthurus juveniles which I am raising up. I originally received 3 hatchlings, but shortly after receiving them, one came down with an acute case of pneumoperitoneum (you can read a detailed report on this in Biawak Vol. 1 No. 2 http://varanidae.org/1_2-Mendyk.pdf), and died the next day.

I am hopeful that the two end up to be a sexual pair; these two hatched out within 2 days of each other and are from different mothers, but the same father. The larger of the two is ca. 7" in total length, and is just now starting to color up. The dark spotting within the ocelli has just started to come in a few weeks ago, and the red background coloration is just now starting to develop.

I am excited to see them as adults, as their parents are excellent representatives of the "Red" V. acanthurus in the US hobby. Due to a bunch of numbskulls crossing 'reds' and 'yellows' regularly (knowingly or not), it is now difficult to find "pure" representatives of either variant, much like the V. tristis and V. gouldii fiasco over here....

[master pt]

Nice ackies bob, hmm and I thought you only liked the prasinus type
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