Dendrobates imitator - first egg!

[John]

I think that's algae growing on the egg. Anyhow, here's the egg 2 weeks later, before it hatched:



I really like how you can see the yolk in the belly.

[John]

A couple of days later I spotted him in a central bromeliad pool. Father must have dropped him off but I missed it.

[John]

Here he is a few weeks later. Notice how the white yolk in the gut is gone - that's real food now!

[1beataway]

Those photos are fantastic. And that must be something amazing to see.

[John]

Thanks Elaine. I'm really getting a kick out of watching this pair do their thing - they lay a clutch a week, between 2 and 4 eggs each time, and the eggs hatch in 2 weeks, so things are getting hectic!