HMPK x PK

This spawn is special to me as im using one of my home bred females iv managed to raise from my first sucessful spawn

The male is a white/green/red marble HMPK imported from Indonesia and the female is pale blue showing a little red in her finnage, raised by me and she's a PK.

I really dont want to distract them so no photos taken, the male has already been spooked when the female wiggled at him so much that the IAL with his bubbles underneath got pushed across the other side of the tank.

So i decided on a short video they where aware of what i was doing but wasnt too bothered.

No eggs have been dropped yet and they've been wrapping for about an hour and half now, i released them at about 9.30am this morning.

Here's the video and il apologise about the background noise now my daughter was watching Peppa Pig!

As i typed that post she started to drop eggs...yay!

Yay! Will be watching this pairs progress very closely

Lilfishie wrote:Yay! Will be watching this pairs progress very closely

Dont worry number 9 is yours siobhan! lol!

Wrapping and dropping eggs

Here's a photo of the eggs iv got, they show up white on the photo...think iv got a fair few.

They stopped spawning after about 5 hours.

That's a great number of eggs, congratulations on the spawn

Mazza101 wrote:That's a great number of eggs, congratulations on the spawn

thanks i had a major fright earlier they'd gone, but now iv found them hidden under a leaf...phew!

Looks like lots of eggs.

2tall wrote:Looks like lots of eggs.

Im over due a big spawn, lol!

He keeps moving them but apparently that a good sign!

Of course it is, he will be a brill daddy lots of babies to choose from

great videos Nat! Looks like lots of lovely eggs there! Well done to you all!

Nataliey wrote:

Mazza101 wrote:That's a great number of eggs, congratulations on the spawn

thanks i had a major fright earlier they'd gone, but now iv found them hidden under a leaf...phew!

I'm expecting a photo of the little fry very soon please!

Thanks Nicki, after lots of moving of the eggs he's finely happy where he's put them and left them in a corner all day today was half expecting them to be moved again!

Will try get a photo later =)

Nataliey wrote:Thanks Nicki, after lots of moving of the eggs he's finely happy where he's put them and left them in a corner all day today was half expecting them to be moved again!

Will try get a photo later =)

A real perfectionist eh!

looks to me like a great wrapper,looks to be loads of eggs.the male seems quiet for a HMPK.great job.

wassy82 wrote:looks to me like a great wrapper,looks to be loads of eggs.the male seems quiet for a HMPK.great job.

wayne you should've seen him a couple of days before this spawn! Looked like a cat after a mouse!

I'll be watching this spawn with interest. Remind me again what the parents of the female were? Were they both PK? I have 2 similar spawns planned for Feb.

Milngavie wrote:I'll be watching this spawn with interest. Remind me again what the parents of the female were? Were they both PK? I have 2 similar spawns planned for Feb.

The father of the female was a Super delta grey/black BF and the mother was a copper halfmoon.

They should be swimming around by sunday il show you when you pick the males up if you like

Nataliey wrote:

Milngavie wrote:I'll be watching this spawn with interest. Remind me again what the parents of the female were? Were they both PK? I have 2 similar spawns planned for Feb.

The father of the female was a Super delta grey/black BF and the mother was a copper halfmoon.

They should be swimming around by sunday il show you when you pick the males up if you like

Now that sounds like an offer you can't refuse

Well dad still in with the fry i usually would have taken him out by now but he's still looking after the fry and wont come out from under the nest!

If you look close enough you can see the fry!

Sure can see them. Good for him!

Il try and get better photos later of the fry with my other half's camera its better than mine!

It's nice to hear about the good Dad's once in a while. I always hear about the ones that eat the eggs and fry but not often enough about the good ones. I took one out yesterday because I thought he was spending too much time chasing back and forth from one side to the other trying to chase off the fry in the tank on one side and juveniles on the other side in another tank. 36 hours later I finally got the last of the four he was tending in his jar. I shined the light in and realized there were close to 200 fry so he must have been riding herd pretty well.

I managed to entice him out yesterday with some food, he wasnt looking tired and looks to have quite a few fry but now they've all moved from the nest and they are that small cant really see that many!