Progression thread for my Lava Opal!

Happy birthday Tom! How beautiful he is. I can see he enjoys the great outdoors. Congrats on such a wonderful milestone!

<3 <3 <3 Thank you!

Some pictures of my beauty.
Love this little turd.
His personality has blossomed so much, he's so curious and always comes out to greet me and hang out.
He's amazing <3

Couple more pictures from feeding time...
His colors are so subtle and beautiful.

I am shocked at how much lava adds to opal, I would not have expected much of a difference. He's looking great!

Originally Posted by DuxorW

I am shocked at how much lava adds to opal, I would not have expected much of a difference. He's looking great!

Thank you so much.
I am too.
I was looking at several pictures of normal Opals and they're beautiful- but you can definitely see the changes with the Lava aspect in there.
He just gets more amazing as he grows.

What I like most about your lava opal and my lava lavender male is the BLUE saddles. My female is more of a silvery color. I hope the males keep the interesting saddle coloration! Hope you don't mind me posting a couple of pics to demonstrate what I mean.

Male (about 80g)


Female (380g)

The male looks like a way more colorful version my boy.
I do love the blue saddles on them all, it's so unique.
The female looks gorgeous, too.
It's definitely interesting to see the similarities and the differences between the two, they look so awesome!

Our boys even have a similar colored/shaped pattern behind their heads. So cute.

Yours came from Steve, right? So did my male, maybe they are related