another 260 spawn but with a twist

this has surprised me and i wonder if its happened with any other plecs or even b/n....

there has been a spawn overnight and im thinking the male decided to leave them for whatever reason.... and a female has taken up residence looking after the eggs.... the females are at least 2cm smaller than the males and theres definitely no mistaken identity......
its been 3 days since i discovered this and im watching to see what happens...

anybody else had this happen??? :dk::dk::dk:

Great news, you make it seem so easy!! :clap:

well congrats on the spawn firstly.
Never heard of a male abandoning the eggs and the female taking over before, maybe you have a "new age" pair lol

scatz said:

well congrats on the spawn firstly.
Never heard of a male abandoning the eggs and the female taking over before, maybe you have a "new age" pair lol

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well shes still there guarding them..... the males are off trying to get the other girl in their caves.... :whistle:

Haha, wierd, never heard of that but first time for everything

Never had that before either, had 2 males helping to rear one batch once though :dk:

Hope she manages to hatch them for you :thumbup:

wow good news...any chance this could be a sleeper male ? Like we have in Apistos ...cheers jk :thumbup:

got my eyes on them to johnno

gosh very unusual! hope they hatch ok for you.

i decided to relieve her of her duties....

eggs were laid in a slate cave (by bream legend) with a removable lid so it was extremely easy removing the eggs and at the same i can definitely confirm shes one of the 2 females... i have 3m2f adults in the colony so theres definitely no mistaking them.. the other girl is fat and is in one of the boys caves now... male is doing the verticle tail jiggie... :woohoo:

so it has to be her eggs.... all 18 of them.... now in a fry saver with airstone
will get some pics tomorrow when the lights on....

theres definitely 2 girls laying as one lot eggs is very bright yellow and the other is more softer yellow with white tinge to them....

i thought i knew all i needed to know about plecs!!! learnt something new this week....

i have had colonies of royal whiptails with males sharing egg duties... but multiple females laying as well... its cool how they keep piling up the eggs up around the existing ones on the glass...

dam man u could get 2 gay frogs to mate yeha

berwickdave said:

dam man u could get 2 gay frogs to mate yeha

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hahaha funny you say frogs got truckloads of them outside in the ponds and taddies everywhere... dunno if theres any gay frogs though :lol::lol::lol:

Good luck with them, look forward to pics, not heard of a female tending to the eggs before..?





J

heres some egg pics







had to remove some fungussed eggs
over the next couple days i had to remove heaps of fungussed eggs
ended up with 6 wrigglers
260 eggs seem to be the hardest to keep fungus free....

thats a bloody shame john

the gay frogs are the 1s knee deep in sh*t:whistle::whistle::whistle::whistle::whistle::whistle:

berwickdave said:

thats a bloody shame john

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is the glass half full or half empty i ask... ???

i like to think of a glass in its fullness....

i like 6 survivors not worried about 12 eggs that didnt make it.....

make it up in the next spawn(s)

Great pics :thumbup:

Can I ask how you seperate off bad eggs as when i've tried it in the past i've ended up spoiling good ones with them :wb:

with long nose tweezers and a scalple and a long skewer... let the surgery begin....

Insanely jealous. Not listening. Fingers in ears. Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalla.:thumbup: