Spawning mops work miracles!
Posted: 12 Nov 2014, 07:41
So I made my first spawning mops this weekend and I put two in my 36-gallon community tank. This morning I awoke to see a few Cory eggs in the mops. I didn't have time to isolate the mops this morning, so after work I removed them to a separate hatching tank. The visible eggs were gone by now, but I hoped beyond hope that other eggs were buried inside the mops.
Fast forward just one hour. What do I discover? A full grown female swimming in the hatching tank! I never dreamed the mops would work so fast, or that the eggs would hatch out a completely different species of fish. Yippee!
... Nor did I dream that a female Apisto would be so stubborn as to snuggle itself inside one mop and hang on as I lifted the mops out of water, drained their water back into the big tank and carried the mops (in air) to the hatching tank...
Fast forward just one hour. What do I discover? A full grown female swimming in the hatching tank! I never dreamed the mops would work so fast, or that the eggs would hatch out a completely different species of fish. Yippee!
... Nor did I dream that a female Apisto would be so stubborn as to snuggle itself inside one mop and hang on as I lifted the mops out of water, drained their water back into the big tank and carried the mops (in air) to the hatching tank...