February 22, 2001 at 2:39 am
#14308
In a message dated 2/21/01 8:07:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, jtouga1@… writes: I am assuming that you are refering to the color of the skin? I have noticed that my macro. babies seem to have a very light gray skin but when I put them outside their skin appears whiter and remains that way as they get older. When my first three babies hatched I was sure they weren’t really ornates because all of the ones I had seen had black shells with yellow centers on the scutes. My babies were all light gray on their shells. I didn’t know that the light gray I was seeing would later turn into the yellow scute centers and the new growth would be black. Vickie