I have a mix….my OW and young dragon are the original peacock. My Scratcher is the 2nd type of peacock…more vibrant than the original, but not as bright as the later peacocks. My sitting Spectral and my fledgling are from the last peacock coloring, which is the brighter one. My female coiled dragon fits in there somewhere. 🙂
I think both colors are good represenitives of the peacock coloring…the older color works well for the first generation Dragons with the finer scales…while the newer color works for later Dragons which have much larger scales… so really they both work.. 😀
Personally I prefer the newer peacock, because it’s brighter. I have both kinds. My family is the really old peacock, my scratcher, OW and Riser are the 2nd kind, and my fledge and sitting Spectral are the bright version.
Wow, that is a pretty big difference. I only have two peacocks, so I guess I’m glad one is the newer color (fledge) and the other is old school (scratcher)!
I’m partial to the old peacock color, myself. It just looks richer and (it sounds odd) feels richer too. It is just more visually satisfying. I have a male dragon in the old peacock color. He is very subdued in lower light and *pops* in direct sunlight. Yummy!