My 1.5 year old gulf coast has stayed quite drab in the shell. However, his face is turning white. I thought that happened when they got old. What color changes have you noticed in your gulf coasts, if you keep any?
color change in juvenile gulf coast box turtle
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Many gulfs are characterized with a dark nearly black shell with white facial features, its sounds as though you have a wonderful young black phase gulf 
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The early onset of facial features may be caused by his fast growth he is going to be a monster!
.The early onset of facial features may be caused by his fast growth
he is going to be a monster!
turtlemann2 said:Many gulfs are characterized with a dark nearly black shell with white facial features, its sounds as though you have a wonderful young black phase gulf
The early onset of facial features may be caused by his fast growth
Yes, so you keep reminding me!! LOL
It probably has nothing to do with age, but simply is part of the mature color pattern. Post a pic of him!
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Millie always had a colorful shell, and it has stayed that way. But now she is getting a lot of yellow on her face, legs and neck, and her eye's are turning red. But it's still too early to tell what sex she/he is yet.
When I first got her
This week
When I first got her
This week
Mine does not have all that yellow on the skin. Or the shell for that matter. He just has a dark colored pretty bland shell, black skin and white on the chin and jaw area. I think all that yellow coloring on the actual skin is pretty unusual in a gulf coast.
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My male has some yellow
My subadult female has ALOT of color and is amazingly colored ill have to go take a picture and post it here
From what i can tell there are two strains of GCBT a tan phase and a black phase the tan phase has a more likly chance at having yellow coloring while the black phase has a higher liklyhood of the white face.
Beautiful Scott. I don't know anything about the GC box turtle, but yours looks very similar to mine. I've never had one and this is my first.
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