Mic....we need update pics.
I have to borrow a good camera. But, the saga of the newbie marine fish breeder continues. . .
So, I said my male was brooding again. His mouth was looking really full (I didn't see fins and eyeballs). I knew I should put him in the breeder net soon or he would have to release his babies into the main tank. My rock and coral may be beautifully placed, but it is not conducive to catching fish. After about 8 minutes of stressing the poor guy out, I finally caught him. I put him in the breeder net. He was so stressed at being caught, he spit the contents of his mouth out (at least mostly in the net). Last time I caught him he spit a few out, but I think he sucked them back in. This time, the 30 or so babies he spit out were going to be impossible for him to get back in. I let him out of the net and transferred the babies to my 10 gallon tank w/my big babies (the little guys are still in the breeders net as they are bite sized for the older babies). They aren't good swimmers yet, so they are just sitting at the bottom of the net. I could see some egg sack still attached to some of them, so I don't think they will need to eat right away. I tried some brine shrimp anyway. They weren't too interested.
Here are my bad pictures. The first two are of the older babies. The last one, if you squint just right, those black blobs look like fish babies.
