How DOES a substrate spawner spawn?

[ChEeRs_BiG_EaRs]

hey guys, jsut looking to get some of there. jsut wondering, how exactly do they spawn and what happens. any info is great.
thanx
Justin

[NatakuTseng]

I believe they dig a pit, spawn in it, and then bury the eggs, or spawn over the gravel/sand. Just dropping the eggs.

[lesley]

Substrate spawner is a term used to describe any fish that lays its eggs on something. The "something" could be a rock, the aquarium glass, anything. "Subtrate spawner" differentiates from fish that lay floating eggs, scatter eggs, mouthbrood, etc. Although, actually, I think mouthbrooders are considered substrate spawners, they just pick their eggs up afterward.

[Rhys]

read up on how convict spawn as there is heaps on that. I have watched my female convict lay eggs and prepare nest. She and he push and dig sand/pebbles away to make a clear glass patch and they lay the eggs there. 3-4 days later they hatch. and depending on how big the nest is is how far they keep a check on there fry. Well my convicts kept the fry in the nest and gradually push it out more and more for more swimming room.

[NatakuTseng]

Convicts will spawn on almost anything, not just the bottom of the tank, our pair has spawned on one of the fake rock arches we have, underside of a driftwood root, on the drift wood, on a clay pot. So they aren't really substate spawners.

[ChEeRs_BiG_EaRs]

when i used to have some of the bas***** they used to breed in long black pots standing upright :)
justin