Offspring
I’ve had a male Rocio Octofasciatum for some time, and he’s been alone about a year or so as his mate passed away. I’ve been somewhat reluctant to find a new female as they do make a mating pair, but I found an ad on a forum for JD’s and decided to give it a go.
Picked her up about a week ago, and let her into her new home hoping for the best. They’ve seemed to like eachother, but I haven’t seen any courting bahviour to speak of.
Imagine my surprise when I was getting ready to do the weekly water change today…
I haven’t even seen the eggs, and they’ve probably been there for 3-5 days…
All of a sudden I’ve got a lot ahead of me. Setting up new rearing tanks, preparing food, feeding changing water, cleaning etc etc… I am looking forward to it though, but I haven’t got too big expectations.. It’s their first time spawning and first timers haven’t got the biggest spawn-grow ratio.
I figured it was best to make a film now incase of a disaster, and here it is:
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