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Can someone ID this morph please?

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what morph is the orange one??? not photoshopped there are more pics at the facebook page sulcata tortoise
 

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hypererythristic?
(extra reds)
nice tort.................where is it, maybe someone knows where or who owns it?...
unless you own it....
 
Personally, it looks dyed......Look at the last Sulcata.....Looks un-naturally yellow to me....

The Sulcata that you can barely see looks about what a Sulcata should look like.......The first one I'm on the fence with......Maybe yes, maybe no.....
 
If I had to guess I would say that the orange one is housed in a yard with iron rich soil. I've seen dogs get that color from rolling in it so I would think that a spur-thigh that dug down would get the same paint job.
 
I've seen this before on tortoiseforum, though I couldn't find the link. The owner of a similar red sulcata (perhaps the same one, but since I can't find the thread I can't verify) stated that their normal sulcata had its entire body dyed red by their red/orange clay.
 
OH ......my brother's toenails turned that color when he spent most of the summer fishing in the Susquehanna , toads are that color there (on islands) and snapping turtles have been seen that color at times...not really alot though....and it all comes from COAL Sand......tons of coal ....the beaches are black sand....(falls off train cars for 100 years and washes down river and builds up behind the first big dam...(Safe Harbor Dam).....
....might be dyed....might be odd.....hope we find out.....??? ..soon.....LOL
 
It is probably that color due to the red soil of Hawaii. I have seen Hawaiian raised torts this color more than once.
 
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