She laid a total of 14 eggs.
You can see the hypermel trait in most of their head patterns. Almost looks like a clutch of Grease kings.
If you look close, you'll notice some of the Newports have something very different going on.
Post shed photos.
This is a typical banded from this clutch. The hypermelanism is noticeable in the head pattern, but this is considered a low expression of hypermelanism. There can be a lot of variation in how much hypermelanism is displayed.
The stripe on these Newports is not very solid like most. As you can see, it has that look of fading away like the mother Newport has.
The stripe on this specimen is noticeably more faded than the one above. This right here is already an uncommon look in Newports.
These next three individuals fall in the category of the Newport Chocolate back morph. This trait has already been selected for in captivity and bred for years. The captive morphs are called Reverse wide striped and vanishing striped. As far as I know, this is the first time this trait has been produced in locality animals. This individual has an extremely vanished stripe.
A large portion of the stripe is completely vanished in this individual. I thought this was going to be the holy grail until I saw the next individual.
The striping is completely vanished. I held this boy back and a female Newport in hopes of producing this rare locality morph.
