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I just got a surprice I`d never thought I would ever see..
Absolutely the most odd place for an Apisto-female to keep her larvae / fry.. (yet)!!
As we know, Apisto females like to relocate their offspring when they notice that they start hatching ..
.. and often then, where it is quite dark.. (in a cave or beneath any tank-decoration..)
Since only half of my 50-60 liter tank has gravel/ sand on the bottom, the female (rositae) would not place the little ones directly on the glass bottom or under the root .. or in a coco shell..or under a rock..
... So obviously(!!?!!) she chose a floating plastic screw-cap from a deodorant that I put in the tank as protection for the former inhabitants.. fry of Epiplatys lamottei ...!!
The 4cm female can hardly seat herself inside the screw-cap ..!!!
As a result of her choise of position, she had obvious problems to manage to keep the small wriggling fry left in the screw-cap.. floating with the opening slanted downwards !!!
She acted like a brood-caring Betta male .. picking up the little ones in the mouth to spit them back into the screw-cap ... Absolutely amazing to see .. !!
I have now added several coco-caves as an alternative for her..
Just hope I did not scare her and the male so they fail with their task ..
/Micke
Absolutely the most odd place for an Apisto-female to keep her larvae / fry.. (yet)!!
As we know, Apisto females like to relocate their offspring when they notice that they start hatching ..
.. and often then, where it is quite dark.. (in a cave or beneath any tank-decoration..)
Since only half of my 50-60 liter tank has gravel/ sand on the bottom, the female (rositae) would not place the little ones directly on the glass bottom or under the root .. or in a coco shell..or under a rock..
... So obviously(!!?!!) she chose a floating plastic screw-cap from a deodorant that I put in the tank as protection for the former inhabitants.. fry of Epiplatys lamottei ...!!
The 4cm female can hardly seat herself inside the screw-cap ..!!!
As a result of her choise of position, she had obvious problems to manage to keep the small wriggling fry left in the screw-cap.. floating with the opening slanted downwards !!!
She acted like a brood-caring Betta male .. picking up the little ones in the mouth to spit them back into the screw-cap ... Absolutely amazing to see .. !!
I have now added several coco-caves as an alternative for her..
Just hope I did not scare her and the male so they fail with their task ..
/Micke
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