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Conditioned the black HM female for well over a week now and the male just about a week and they've finally decided they want to spawn. Let them swim about together yesterday for about an hour then put her back in her chimney.
Today at about 1.30 i decided to try again as the female looked promising and the male no aggression towards her while in the chimney.
My thoughts where right and the females stripes came up really bright creamy colour looked like a zebra when she went near the male who was just under his nest, there was a few flares and a nip or 2 and then they wrapped withing a least a few minutes of being together. They are still wrapping now about an hour into wrapping the female started to drop eggs, only a few at first but now they seem to be wrapping as soon as all the eggs are picked up and into the nest.
Iv got a video and a few photos (i didnt want to putr them off, up in their face with a camera!) so il put those up later when i have a bit of spare time.
The male is the same male i used for my 1st successful spawn (Earl Grey) with the copper HM female i got from Kel, the female this time is stated to be a black melano HM female and i know that black melanos are infertile but i doubt she's pure melano as she has the blue tinge to her scales so i guess il wait and see what happens. Im really hoping for fry as my other spawn is almost grown up!
Last time he was a really good dad looking after the eggs even though i did curse him a few times as i thought he'd eaten them but in actual fact he'd pushed the eggs right into the bubbles...iv got my fingers crossed that the same will happen and il have fry in a couple of days.
Today at about 1.30 i decided to try again as the female looked promising and the male no aggression towards her while in the chimney.
My thoughts where right and the females stripes came up really bright creamy colour looked like a zebra when she went near the male who was just under his nest, there was a few flares and a nip or 2 and then they wrapped withing a least a few minutes of being together. They are still wrapping now about an hour into wrapping the female started to drop eggs, only a few at first but now they seem to be wrapping as soon as all the eggs are picked up and into the nest.
Iv got a video and a few photos (i didnt want to putr them off, up in their face with a camera!) so il put those up later when i have a bit of spare time.
The male is the same male i used for my 1st successful spawn (Earl Grey) with the copper HM female i got from Kel, the female this time is stated to be a black melano HM female and i know that black melanos are infertile but i doubt she's pure melano as she has the blue tinge to her scales so i guess il wait and see what happens. Im really hoping for fry as my other spawn is almost grown up!
Last time he was a really good dad looking after the eggs even though i did curse him a few times as i thought he'd eaten them but in actual fact he'd pushed the eggs right into the bubbles...iv got my fingers crossed that the same will happen and il have fry in a couple of days.
Last edited by Nataliey on Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:15 am; edited 2 times in total
