What color would your ikran be?

[Raiden]

Hmm.

Well, if Ikran are anything like Earth reptiles, then different populations of them would have different colors depending on where they lived, a la population genetics.

For example, a red or orange Ikran is possible, if they lived near red or orange rock formations, because then they could blend in better than others, and avoid predation. This would then skew the entire population towards the red/orange colors, since predators would eat anything that stuck out from the crowd.

But, for myself, I would look for unusual color morphs. Color morphs are when an animal has genetics that alter its normal pigmentation, and cause it to look different. This happens to be especially common in reptiles; I have an albino leopard gecko and an albino corn snake. These are very rare in the wild, but artificial selection has allowed us to draw them out through breeding.

So, if there was a color morph for an Ikran, it would be possible that the darker colors were switched with the light colors, as sort of an inverse albino.

I would want mine to look like that; an all-black Ikran with light turquoise stripes, and perhaps a yellow chin crest instead of red.