06-03-2014, 06:38 PM
Well, this is weird.
I have 1.2 turquoise-and-bronze auratus all the same age and from the same clutch. The photo below shows that they are all the same color. Although that isn't their true color; they're much more blue but being near the light changes that. The male is the one at the top.
Today, all three frogs spent hours in the cocohut. There's a lot of eggs in there and I have no idea if it's from one female or both. All three frogs, the male first, have been soaking their butts in "the pool" ever since, which I find kind of funny. (It's just a few mm of water in a very shallow food dish.)
The weird thing is this: the male looks like he's actually changed color. I think the spots are the same but the skin color is just like the green-and-blacks. It's not blotchy like skin disease, and it's not the light trick, because next to a female in the same spot, the difference is very visible. I can't manage to get a photo just yet. He isn't behaving differently at all -- the three are all socializing normally and he's snaffling flies just as enthusiastically as ever -- but his abdomen might be a little swollen. It's hard to tell from the position he's in; I'll see more once he starts his acrobatics again tomorrow.
Are there any problems with frogs that begin with a total change in skin color? Could it be from whatever sort of mating business was going on in the hut for so long? Am I just still being a "new mom" about this?
I have 1.2 turquoise-and-bronze auratus all the same age and from the same clutch. The photo below shows that they are all the same color. Although that isn't their true color; they're much more blue but being near the light changes that. The male is the one at the top.
Today, all three frogs spent hours in the cocohut. There's a lot of eggs in there and I have no idea if it's from one female or both. All three frogs, the male first, have been soaking their butts in "the pool" ever since, which I find kind of funny. (It's just a few mm of water in a very shallow food dish.)
The weird thing is this: the male looks like he's actually changed color. I think the spots are the same but the skin color is just like the green-and-blacks. It's not blotchy like skin disease, and it's not the light trick, because next to a female in the same spot, the difference is very visible. I can't manage to get a photo just yet. He isn't behaving differently at all -- the three are all socializing normally and he's snaffling flies just as enthusiastically as ever -- but his abdomen might be a little swollen. It's hard to tell from the position he's in; I'll see more once he starts his acrobatics again tomorrow.
Are there any problems with frogs that begin with a total change in skin color? Could it be from whatever sort of mating business was going on in the hut for so long? Am I just still being a "new mom" about this?
A girl named Joey.