Darkmoon Bettas
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I got a pair of Apistogramma panduro (blue panda apistos) last week. They're alone in a 10-gallon tank except for some danios as dithers, and they've been increasingly coloring up and acting like a "pair", but I didn't think they'd spawned yet. However, today I was using a turkey baster to take a few bits of uneaten food out of the gravel, knocked over half a flowerpot, and OOPS, there WERE eggs there! I righted it immediately and quit cleaning.
I'm used to dwarf westies--namely kribensis--and apistos are fairly new to me. If it was a pair of kribs, they'd chomp down on those eggs in seconds, since the nest was "disturbed". Are apistos prone to this behaviour as well, or are they more likely to continue to tend their eggs, as long as the eggs themselves weren't disturbed and the disruption was quick? Thanks a bunch!
(Yes, I know the 10 is smaller than ideal for the pair, they're in there temporarily, I wasn't even expecting a spawn yet as both are quite small and just sexable. They'll be moving into a (previously established, fully cycled) 20 in the near future, as soon as I get my 72 set up and move the inhabitants of the 20 into the 72. Although if they do hatch these eggs, I won't move them until the young are big enough to move safely.)
I'm used to dwarf westies--namely kribensis--and apistos are fairly new to me. If it was a pair of kribs, they'd chomp down on those eggs in seconds, since the nest was "disturbed". Are apistos prone to this behaviour as well, or are they more likely to continue to tend their eggs, as long as the eggs themselves weren't disturbed and the disruption was quick? Thanks a bunch!
(Yes, I know the 10 is smaller than ideal for the pair, they're in there temporarily, I wasn't even expecting a spawn yet as both are quite small and just sexable. They'll be moving into a (previously established, fully cycled) 20 in the near future, as soon as I get my 72 set up and move the inhabitants of the 20 into the 72. Although if they do hatch these eggs, I won't move them until the young are big enough to move safely.)
