Boehmtown
Active Member
I'd anyone's interested. My rock flowers spawned again and I caught the sequence on camera, knowing what to look for this time. My males seem to spawn more often than the females are accepting of it.
The male starts to radar dish before lights go out. The skirt comes up and then he does this:
The next day the female kinda did this weird thing around the same time.
Sometime at night or the next day they release eggs, this is what they look like:
In a couple days they are a weird sack like this:
And about a week after that, I start spotting some new babies kinda all over , it's the small dot next to the pinky nail sized baby from my last spawn
They kinda float around the tank and almost look like a stalk from GSP or something. They develop at different speeds at this point depending on where they settle. They moved around quite a bit in this stalk/baby stage but then seem to pick a spot and stay. All on the rocks, none in the sand so far. I catch them kinda floating around the tank.
They so far do it about once every six months. I got no babies from my first spawn that survived and then spawns 2 and 3 seem to have all survive so far. Like 10 babies each time
I am no expert, but me and my buddies tank spawn at the same time so I've seen it a few times and it seems to follow the same rhythm and stages. My babies only are mixtures of the mom and dad. No random colors. I have a male a female that spawn all the time and one that just never really got any bigger than mid sized and that ones displayed no spawning behavior at all. I don't know if they somehow establish a hierarchy or something but I find it weird the other one has done nothing and been in there the longest. Like it's stuck in a juvenile stage. The male I got was attached to the same rock as him and I swear was trying to kill the smaller one. But that's just a guess from observation
The male starts to radar dish before lights go out. The skirt comes up and then he does this:
The next day the female kinda did this weird thing around the same time.
Sometime at night or the next day they release eggs, this is what they look like:
In a couple days they are a weird sack like this:
And about a week after that, I start spotting some new babies kinda all over , it's the small dot next to the pinky nail sized baby from my last spawn
They kinda float around the tank and almost look like a stalk from GSP or something. They develop at different speeds at this point depending on where they settle. They moved around quite a bit in this stalk/baby stage but then seem to pick a spot and stay. All on the rocks, none in the sand so far. I catch them kinda floating around the tank.
They so far do it about once every six months. I got no babies from my first spawn that survived and then spawns 2 and 3 seem to have all survive so far. Like 10 babies each time
I am no expert, but me and my buddies tank spawn at the same time so I've seen it a few times and it seems to follow the same rhythm and stages. My babies only are mixtures of the mom and dad. No random colors. I have a male a female that spawn all the time and one that just never really got any bigger than mid sized and that ones displayed no spawning behavior at all. I don't know if they somehow establish a hierarchy or something but I find it weird the other one has done nothing and been in there the longest. Like it's stuck in a juvenile stage. The male I got was attached to the same rock as him and I swear was trying to kill the smaller one. But that's just a guess from observation
