I introduced myself on another thread and wanted to post some photos here of my latest purchase. I bought a sexed pair of Costa Rican Auratus from Patrick Nabors a couple of weeks ago. They are awesome and to my great surprise and delight, they produced a clutch of eggs two days ago! Forgive the iPhone photos. I'm new at uploading and posting photos and I'm not much of a photographer.
Here's the male.
And the female.
And, tada! Here are the eggs. It's been two days and I think most of them are good. One has a light spot on the top, which looks suspicious. I've bred azureus and raised several to sub-adults. The good azureus eggs have always been entirely black from the start. The auratus eggs looked bicolor at the beginning - black on one side and brownish on the other. I had never seen an auratus clutch before. Is this normal?
Here's the male.
And the female.
And, tada! Here are the eggs. It's been two days and I think most of them are good. One has a light spot on the top, which looks suspicious. I've bred azureus and raised several to sub-adults. The good azureus eggs have always been entirely black from the start. The auratus eggs looked bicolor at the beginning - black on one side and brownish on the other. I had never seen an auratus clutch before. Is this normal?