I paired a male and female pastel highway for a few months, saw multiple locks but never laid eggs. I then put the female with a male lesser pastel. Saw multiple locks, months went by still no eggs. Kept trying both males and finally after a year she had a clutch of 5. 2 slugs, 2 did not make it past 3 weeks (turned moldy and smelled rotten) 1 made it and hatched out 3 days ago. I read something interesting about tetragametic chimerism I will include in a picture. The lesser had some markings that always stood out. One looks like a snake, one looks like a whale and a few others my eyes are always drawn to. The baby is colored like a super pastel highway, but the pattern changes off to a lot of markings similar to the lesser. Other than that curiosity, I’m leaning towards maybe a super pastel super gravel?
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This is not a tetra chimera. I am more inclined to identify this as a SuperGravel Pastel. There is too much dark pigment for it to be SuperPastel
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Appreciate it!