Anyone remember when Azureus wher alot more deep purple??

[Dendro Dave]

Originally Posted by markpulawski

This is a perfect example of what most Azureus looked like in the begining of their availability.

It is interesting that yet another pic being referred to as an example of what they used to look like, looks to have also been taken under the more red/purple hued standard aquarium lights rather then 6500k range bulbs which are probably more common in use today then they were years back. Again I'm not suggesting this entirely accounts for the perception just that it may, and in fact does seem to be playing some part.

[saruchan]

Originally Posted by Dendro Dave

It is interesting that yet another pic being referred to as an example of what they used to look like, looks to have also been taken under the more red/purple hued standard aquarium lights rather then 6500k range bulbs which are probably more common in use today then they were years back. Again I'm not suggesting this entirely accounts for the perception just that it may, and in fact does seem to be playing some part.

Yes the light does give it a little more purple look to it but it is a very deep blue making it look purple , Ill take another picture with different lighting. I was reading Poison Dart Frogs And it said that azureus is a blue, black and purple frog you should check it out page 9. Then again I guess the color is in the eyes of the beholder

[Dendro Dave]

Originally Posted by saruchan

Yes the light does give it a little more purple look to it but it is a very deep blue making it look purple , Ill take another picture with different lighting. I was reading Poison Dart Frogs And it said that azureus is a blue, black and purple frog you should check it out page 9. Then again I guess the color is in the eyes of the beholder

I've seen one I had take on a purple hue at certain angles and times...I don't really dispute that they are likely lighter overall then they used to be. Marty posted a pic on dartfrogz of pretty dark one. Maybe he'll share it here.

[Marty]

here it is...

There's no resize mod here, so I can't post the full size image. Sorry for linking to DF, but the images come out giant and break the page layout. I kept them large because we had a macro thread.

You can click the images and see the pic in the gallery...click it again in the gallery or use the magnifying glass to see detailed photos. In the full shot, he decided to take a leak ;-)





EDIT: I guess linking doesn't work either with the images :S
Full size images:
http://www.dartfrogz.com/gallery/data/501/azureus3.jpg
http://www.dartfrogz.com/gallery/dat...s-head2048.jpg

[Marty]

btw, color should be pretty accurate, I killed any external lights and I calibrated the white balance.

[Dendro Dave]

Thanks Marty... One of my first ones looked a lot like that...not sure of the line as it was bought in a local pet shop or from a reptile show, I forget which. It was a bit of a runt compared to my others but the coloration was nice. The other one I bought with it was almost as dark too...and both were a bit darker then others I've had since.

[Ben E]

Interesting discussion. Back in 2001-2002 when I worked at the NAIB I got to play with the founder azureus quite a bit. Some of the founders were the dark blue and some were the baby blue. These were not representative of different populations but just natural variation.

I was always a fan of the lighter blue but that is just me. Here is a close to no spot sky blue we produced at Herpetologic a few years back.

[sharpn2]

Originally Posted by Marty

here it is...

There's no resize mod here, so I can't post the full size image. Sorry for linking to DF, but the images come out giant and break the page layout. I kept them large because we had a macro thread.

You can click the images and see the pic in the gallery...click it again in the gallery or use the magnifying glass to see detailed photos. In the full shot, he decided to take a leak ;-)





EDIT: I guess linking doesn't work either with the images :S
Full size images:
http://www.dartfrogz.com/gallery/data/501/azureus3.jpg
http://www.dartfrogz.com/gallery/dat...s-head2048.jpg

I just bought one that looks much like this. I wasn't working with azureus until a few years ago, so while I'd heard that the frogs were getting lighter, I hadn't known there was this much of a difference.

Can anyone give me a size comparison, though? The darker one I bought is twice the size of my other females. I named her Helga, because I figured that she's the Russian chick of frogs. I hope she doesn't sit on my male. It'd crush him, given that she's three times his size.

[sharpn2]

Finally got some good eggs out of my old school female. Can't wait to see what they're like when they've hatched.

[bobrez]

My girls have some purple to them