I'm so excited! I never expected to see this in my aquarium. I have 1 female and 2 males, and for the past month or so, the female has been looking EXTREMELY round. I never really considered that they would actually spawn, but they have been doing it for the past several hours.
The males are flushed much darker than their usual coloring, and both they and the female have a dark spot at their vents. The males chase the female all over the place, and about every 15 minutes or so, they dive into the plants and she releases a cloud of tiny (TINY) eggs. Probably 30-50 at a time.
Of course, the black neon tetras and panda cories follow along behind and eat every egg, but it's still really neat to see. I bought a new tank yesterday (upgraded from 7 gal and a rubbermaid box, to a 14 gal woo hoo!), and the fish seem really happy. The cories (lots of grown-up babies now, which precipitated the desire for a new tank) have lots of room to swim now, and obviously the glowlights are happy.....
I took some video of the mating dance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzgvPaCPl5Q
Sorry for the pretty bad quality, that's the best my digital camera can do on video. And don't mind the algae-covered plants, I'm working on it. The other tank was pretty overstocked, and had an algae problem. And yes, I'll be getting more plants and a background- I just set up this tank yesterday, after all!
I have no plans to try and raise glowlight fry. I have enough on my hands with panda cory fry! The 7-gal tank has become the new fry tank.....a step up from the 2.5 gal.
The males are flushed much darker than their usual coloring, and both they and the female have a dark spot at their vents. The males chase the female all over the place, and about every 15 minutes or so, they dive into the plants and she releases a cloud of tiny (TINY) eggs. Probably 30-50 at a time.
Of course, the black neon tetras and panda cories follow along behind and eat every egg, but it's still really neat to see. I bought a new tank yesterday (upgraded from 7 gal and a rubbermaid box, to a 14 gal woo hoo!), and the fish seem really happy. The cories (lots of grown-up babies now, which precipitated the desire for a new tank) have lots of room to swim now, and obviously the glowlights are happy.....
I took some video of the mating dance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzgvPaCPl5Q
Sorry for the pretty bad quality, that's the best my digital camera can do on video. And don't mind the algae-covered plants, I'm working on it. The other tank was pretty overstocked, and had an algae problem. And yes, I'll be getting more plants and a background- I just set up this tank yesterday, after all!
I have no plans to try and raise glowlight fry. I have enough on my hands with panda cory fry! The 7-gal tank has become the new fry tank.....a step up from the 2.5 gal.
