Large egg => large hatchling

[LSuzuki]

My very first spawning - two axies I raised from eggs are finally mature.

Anyhow, I noticed about 2 days after they were laid that in the 851 eggs (carefully counted by my daughter), that there were 3 noticeably bigger eggs. I separated them out. One was damaged in the process and one was infertile, but the third hatched into a noticeably bigger larva. Has anyone else seen things like this? I am curious.

I tried to take pictures, but I am still figuring out my new smart phone ... maybe tomorrow.

 

[Margie]

My larger females lay larger eggs than my smaller females and these larger eggs hatch into larger babies.

 

[LSuzuki]

These eggs were all laid by the same female at the same time. So, I am curious as to why only a couple of eggs where bigger. We will probably never know.

I read somewhere (I can' find it now) about triploid eggs being bigger, so I was wondering if the larva were going to be deformed/non-viable. But so far, the larva seems healthy and normal, but bigger than the siblings.

 

[onecrazyredhead]

What colors are your babies going to be?

 

[LSuzuki]

This batch looks all leucistic. They aren't big enough (for me) to tell if any are melanoid also. (I don't know what recessives the parents have, and the father is a mosaic, which made predicting a bit complicated.)