Mama Mbuna Begins Releasing Spawn #7
From
Jeff Snyder@1:345/3777 to
All on Fri Feb 26 22:39:00 2010
This afternoon -- day number 20 -- Mama Mbuna began releasing the fry from
her seventh spawn. Her usual custom is to temporarily release a few of them
at a time -- or even all of them -- and then to allow them back into her
mouth when they nuzzle up against her. Quite often, they will spend the
first night or two of freedom in the safety of her throat pouch, before she does a final release. I imagine that she will be doing the same thing this
time as well.
While I was only able to catch a glimpse of a few of the fry, they appeared healthy, fully developed, and alert, and they were of course free-swimming.
As to how many fry have actually made it through the entire incubation
cycle, I honestly do not know, and will probably never know. As I mentioned
in a previous post, I did watch her pick up quite a few eggs on the day of
the actual spawn three weeks ago. Perhaps the added rock work will help a
few more of them to survive this time.
Boy, am I being tempted to buy that 280-gallon tank at our LFS! ;)
Jeff Snyder, SysOp - Armageddon BBS Visit us at endtimeprophecy.org port 23 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your Download Center 4 Mac BBS Software & Christian Files. We Use Hermes II
--- Hermes Web Tosser 1.1
* Origin: Armageddon BBS -- Guam, Mariana Islands (1:345/3777.0)