Thread: Dark colors on female brevicaudatus

Without knowing exactly who laid the eggs its difficult to say! is your male in display colours? I have a male that is constantly hounding my females even when they pregnant with eggs and it gets them really stressed out. might be an idea to take her out and put her somewhere else for a few days and see if that helps. Does she have sunken eyes? that is a sign of being egg bound. the eggs inside draw out all of the water from the mother which gives the sunken appearance. if they dont lay the eggs they become too big to be able to be laid and in the end pass away.

as for there being more eggs, pygmy tend to lay all their eggs in one go and 3 is a usual number, my pygmy laid 3 eggs last month and another 3 yesterday.

well he is showing just sort of normal shade of brown nothing to flashy and he doesn't seem to follow around the female much at all. No her eyes are not sunken in so i guess she is not egg bound. she basically is showing all her cool horizontal lines but is very very dark while doing it. i might just separate them for a little while and see how that goes

they might just be her receptive colours letting the male know she is ready to mate? mine tend to go very light in colour, apart from one who goes dark when she is receptive. i wouldnt worry too much.