authenticity of mini marbled motoros

[shern]

greetings all, i’ve been rereading threads and the topic of mini marbled motoros keeps catching me. i was wondering if these species actually exist? or are a marketing ploy for motoros. i know there’s a couple threads that beat around an answer but they’re many years old. anyone know or have a mmm that’s 5+ years old? and at they still mini?

 

[Reese11]

Mini marbles do exist and they are a variant of Motoros. There are also regular marble Motoros that get big. Again a variant of Motoro. For a while many “minis” were mislabeled and grew large but now there are quite a few suppliers/breeders for true mini marble Motoros. I have some I can show you here that are 2 years old and also one that is 4-5 years old

first photo is 4-5 years old an 11” male,
females max out around 12-14” for true minis

second photo are the 2 year olds, all under 11” the male is 10” the two females are just shy of 11”