Well, my pair of calvus black congos were acting a little funny around a conch shell last week, and I suspected they may spawn, so over the weekend I moved their two shells into a 10g for temporary, out of the community tank. The 10g happened to be the only thing up and running at the moment. Tonight I looked in closely and was surprised to see something move. There are babies all over! Probably 15 or so I could see. Not sure if there are more in the shells. The parents are inside one or both of the shells. Sometimes the male goes in hers and sometimes he stays in his own. He's not very aggressive to her. Debating on if I should pull the shells out with parents and move them back to the community tank, but if I do, I'm risking moving some babies that might be in there still.
The babies don't look to have any yolk sac left, hard to tell since they're so tiny. Added some microworms and NLS Fry starter powder. I was happy to see they immediately started bouncing around to catch the food. I covered the intake on the filter. Just got my BBS hatchery going. I've read these fry are hard to raise. I think I've got everything covered now and hoping for the best! Advice welcome!
Here's a pic of the parents I took last week.
The babies don't look to have any yolk sac left, hard to tell since they're so tiny. Added some microworms and NLS Fry starter powder. I was happy to see they immediately started bouncing around to catch the food. I covered the intake on the filter. Just got my BBS hatchery going. I've read these fry are hard to raise. I think I've got everything covered now and hoping for the best! Advice welcome!
Here's a pic of the parents I took last week.
