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Naturally, the first 2013 SMR eggs to hatch WOULD be Palmettos. Left — excerpt of a clutch of 18 eggs from a visual Palmetto bred to a Palmetto heterozygote. Right — the first palmetto out of its egg showing off his/her egg toof. The large color spots on the back are flakes of the incubation medium, vermiculite. The off-color zones that appear to encompass more than one scale are places where moisture is trapped between scales of the two upper-most skin layers (the new and old epidermal generations). Very few color specks are visible on Palmettos at this age, but the color flecks that ARE visible now will saturate with respective colors, and new ones will gradually appear and saturate throughout maturity.