Spawn of ram

Earlier this week I posted a thread about the new German bread rams that I bought on Sunday and one of the females having paired off with one of my Malaysian bread rams, the 2 that are below in the pic.



Yesterday I had the pleasure of watching her lay her eggs and him fertilising them on each pass. Its actually the first time I've watched this and I was truly amazed at how gentle and precise she was about the placement of the eggs.

The male is mostly guarding the eggs with the female in close proximity, they are both fighting off intruders quite vigorously, and have had some pretty spectacular jaw locking run-ins with one of my male A.Agassizii's.

This morning it still looks like 100% of the eggs remain with the male keeping very close watch over them. I'm very surprised by this actually, the male is of the Malaysian strain, so I naturally expected that he would make a poor example of what a father should be.

Here the 2 are with the eggs

 

Congrats freerider!

Watching the whole spawning ritual never seizes to amaze! Nature is truly amazing. Hope they hatch and make it!

Rgds,
Marco

 

I have my doubts about this lot making it very far to be quite honest, they are housed in quite an active community tank with the following house mates:

cherry barbs
harlequin rasboras
bristle noses
a.agassizii's
bronze cories
more rams

The plan is to re-locate this pair to their own tank once it has stabilized and I feel it is safe to do so.

 

Just freaking awsome!!!

 

Well, rams and agassizii's in the same tank is not a good idea especially when the rams have eggs. The agassizii male was harassing the rams to no end, and hence the eggs are now eaten. I noticed last night though that the male seems to be trying his luck with 2 of the other females now.

 

4 days later and there is another spawn. I would say around 60 eggs again.

 

The pair that layed the eggs in the first pics have now been moved to their own "room" after eggs were eaten 4 times now.

Lets see how they do in their own tank.

 

Good luck

 

Congrats and Good Luck. Pls keep us posted with pic updates

 

Further to moving the pair into their own tank, I noticed that they had a hell of a lot of eggs packed onto a rock in the tank on Saturday, and thought that the eggs had all been eaten when I looked on Sunday.

Yesterday my brother was looking in the tank and noticed a moving mass of wrigglers on the sand at the back. Lets see how this plays out.

 

Wow! Wrigglers all over the show, it seems! Keep us posted! Good luck!

 

Well the parents now have free swimming fry... lots of them!

I cant believe how protective the father is though, when I put the turkey baster in the tank to direct some food at the fry, dad was attacking it much better.