Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Lake Chapala male

I just got this adult male Lake Chapala rosy. He's breedable size but will probably still grow a bit.

There are a few places called "Lake Chapala", but these guys come from the rocky outcroppings next to the Chapala dry lake bed in Baja Mexico, on Hwy 1 north of Bahia de Los Angeles, and about 60 km south of Catavina.

You don't see Lake Chapalas very often, or as vmsherp says it "Very uncommon in captive collections". If fact, besides the original image from Jerry, no other pictures of Lake Chapalas have been submitted for the multiple pictures project that I'm putting together.


I haven't had him long, but he's already one of my favorites. He has a little bit of a blue tint to his base color when he's in better lighting.








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