shrks1fan
Fish Herder
OK, back a while ago I did a journal on a spawn I was doing with my male steel super delta and a turquoise female with HMx. The father ate most of the eggs from that spawn but I did salvage some eggs and some fry did hatch. At this date I have 4 surviving fry from that spawn.
I've now put the pair back in the spawn tank as they were both healed up nicely and she was plump with eggs again.
I put them in the spawn tank last night and she went bonkers, so I released her almost immediately. She was extremely barred up. They didn't do anything though until 11:40am PST today, when they started spawning. He doesn't have much of a bubblenest although he's working on it frantically, but it doesn't seem to grow, so I think alot of the bubbles are just popping. He seems more interested in working on the nest then actually embracing, but they do embrace occassionally. It took a while before any eggs were produced, but when I got home (from a trip to the LFS where I traded in 10 of my females from my first spawn 5 months ago) they were finally getting some eggs. The father is being good about collecting all the eggs and putting them in the nest, then working on the nest some more. Still not much of a nest though, he just can't seem to get it to grow. She keeps poking him and getting into position for another embrace but he just wants to keep working on the nest. Finally after a while he'll embrace. It's pretty funny to watch.
I imagine they'll be at it a while at this rate. I'll let you know how it goes.
Linda
I've now put the pair back in the spawn tank as they were both healed up nicely and she was plump with eggs again.
I put them in the spawn tank last night and she went bonkers, so I released her almost immediately. She was extremely barred up. They didn't do anything though until 11:40am PST today, when they started spawning. He doesn't have much of a bubblenest although he's working on it frantically, but it doesn't seem to grow, so I think alot of the bubbles are just popping. He seems more interested in working on the nest then actually embracing, but they do embrace occassionally. It took a while before any eggs were produced, but when I got home (from a trip to the LFS where I traded in 10 of my females from my first spawn 5 months ago) they were finally getting some eggs. The father is being good about collecting all the eggs and putting them in the nest, then working on the nest some more. Still not much of a nest though, he just can't seem to get it to grow. She keeps poking him and getting into position for another embrace but he just wants to keep working on the nest. Finally after a while he'll embrace. It's pretty funny to watch.
I imagine they'll be at it a while at this rate. I'll let you know how it goes.
Linda