Jags 2010

why not jsut vent?

I just love your photography Jeff.

Great pics Jeff. They sure are growing up quickly.

Drake-tripod wrote:why not jsut vent?

No need to now

Egg coming out of her ovipositor


How the heck did she hold all those? That rock is covered!

Congrats Jeff and great shots

How big are they now? Seems like they were still babies a month ago...

only about4 inches I think maybe 4.5

lol well now they sure are male female

she might be around 6", kind of hard to measure her in the water, they sure look smaller than that in the 6 foot tank

Congrats on the spawn Jeff! That´s what I would call a heavy load of caviar.

looks like about 80-90% got fertilized



both fish are guarding the eggs

Great shots Jeff

Are the catfish in that tank? If so, are they showing any interest in the spawn?

They won't let the catfish near them, the cats are staying near the other end of the tank unless I put some food in there, but they won't get near the eggs. I'm sure they might sneak a few when the fry start to swim around.

them jags are beautiful onery fish

think a few more eggs died, they're not taking out the bad ones and a clump has fungused over. But you can see the makings of some fry inside the good eggs

you're gonna be up to your eyeballs in fry before long haha...

fry are "hatching", both parents are moving the wrigglers to pile just behind the rock
can't get a decent shot from the refraction of the tank trying to shoot at an angle

so much gravel stacked in the corner I can't get a good angle on the fry, managed to get one wriggler just after she spit him out

if i cant find a good jag some time soon i want the best fry in there

they've moved the fry twice, since then, the first move was into a hole between some rocks, then right back to the same spot as before The female makes a good thud when she rams the 5/8" glass, the devils will flare up before they attack, these guys just go for the kill, then back to the fry.

I've had bad luck lately just driving fish 30 minutes away to the LFS, I'd be afraid to ship anything

jeff if i can do it im sure you can lol ive shipped across contry

Cool!

Cool Jeff..

It is fun to watch the take care of them..