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MelonHead · Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:17 am Post subject: Angels at it again

My pair gave it an 11 day rest this time. They've spawned again.

As I'm already raising a bunch myself, I thought I'd let this batch be & let them try their hand at raising (eating) these themselves. Who knows? They might actually get the hang of it eventually.

MelonHead · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject:

Still parenting!

They've moved the wigglers from the slate to a java fern and back to the slate again in the last 24 hours. This is as long as they've gone without eating the babies.

I won't be able to get pics for the next few days, but I'll post some as soon as I can.

clunkster · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:05 am Post subject:

sounds as though they might have got the hang of it now Wink

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MelonHead · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:40 pm Post subject:

clunkster wrote:

sounds as though they might have got the hang of it now Wink

They have indeed! I'm so proud of them (like I had anything to do with it)!

Check it out...

Here's a great picture of Dad (Sonny)

And here's Sonny with the Mrs....Ned. (My son named her before we sexed her...so I guess Nettie would make more sense.)

After eating their first three spawns, I stole their fourth and have been raising them up. They're doing great & I posted pics on another post.

So on their fifth spawn, they got the hang of it. Here are some shots of them taking care of the wigglers which they spit onto a baby sword...

Just today they all became free swimming & ate their first brine shrimp...

How sweet is that???? rk01_aola

I was psyched when I successfully hatched a spawn myself - but this is REALLY cool to watch them taking care of the babies on their own.

The babies swarm all around the parents & follow them wherever they swim. It looks like a swarm of gnats all around them.

I'll post more as more develops.

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