Grey Lee
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- Mar 8, 2017
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Hopefully you didn't pay ivory prices for that sulcata, as it looks normal to me (although beautiful). Ivory is a branding for leucistic sulcata - they need two copies of a defective gene responsible for melanin production. It's a very rare mutation, so the babies aren't common. You aren't going to accidentally buy one. They're also quite striking. While yours has a lovely pale shell, it has fairly normal looking amounts of pigment in the face and legs. Look at examples of ivories to see the difference http://tortugavilla.com/IvorySulcatas.html
Edit: looking at your profile picture photo, of actually say that looks more like a potentially leucistic sulcata. More photos of the face and legs?
Ok, I know. Im a little upset because I paid about $700 for this little guy. But It do look different with other normal baby sulcata, what do you think?Ah, that's one of Richard Fife's animals. Your profile picture is an ivory. The tortoise you uploaded photos of is not (I'm assuming it didn't come from Richard Fife).
I do think it has beautiful colouring, not typical. Who did you buy it from?
If you clean the face and legs up some, does some of the dark colouring wash off? I was assuming most of that was pigment, but maybe it's dirty. @DeanS's ivory babies had their legs and face darken up quite a bit, actually http://www.tortoiseforum.org/thread...s-ultra-photo-heavy.92212/page-10#post-897971
What does someone like @Baoh or @DeanS think of this guy?