Apogon Leptacanthue spawning

I was shocked tonight when after feeding my Blue streak cardinals and moving on to feed other fish, I had one last look around the tanks before I had to pull a nest of red head eggs and noticed an egg ball hanging out of my female blue streak..... Wow...
 
I quickly rushed to get my camera and took this shot.

 
I was amazed to see it buy didn't actually witness the spawning so don't know if the male actually fertilised them.
What was really interesting is that the male seemed completely clueless. The female swam around for 10 mins with the male occasionally joining her and rising in the water column, but not taking the eggs. I was baffled. Eventually the female shook herself to release the eggs and they both rose in the water column and to my surprise the female took the eggs!!!
She would then swim upto the male, (again looking clueless) shakeing her head from side to side and posturing. Occasionally they would swim together and I expected to see the female spit the eggs and the male take them. But no, at lights out the female still had the eggs, at least some of them anyway. Will have to wait till the morning to see if she has eaten the eggs or if the male has manned up and taken on his duties. Was fascinating to watch.

I've "walked in" on this before with my dottybacks. It usually doesn't go as well for me, the female usually freaks out and eats the eggs.
 
I hope it goes better for you! Good luck.

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