A good fish story
Friday, February 17, 2012 5:36 PM
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Once upon a time, as I was delivering fish to a store, I noticed that they had some A. ocellaris clownfish from another breeder friend of mine. There were 6 clownfish in the tank, and one looked gravid, while another one was aggressively shooing the others away from her. I thought to myself, "Those two look like a pair to me,", so I traded some fish for them and brought them home. That was well over a year ago, and they have not spawned, not spawned, not spawned… The male has changed from an orange fish to a mostly black fish. It's strange, but the breeder these came from sells" tranforming" fish that change like that. I didn't know it when I bought them. I've become increasingly unhappy with them taking up precious space in my broodstock system, and not producing eggs. I decided yesterday that they had to go. I could sell them as individual fish to a store that might want them. Done. This morning she looked gravid for the first time since I got her, and her ovipositor was down. This afternoon they spawned for the first time. Go figure. Now I have to keep them just to see what kind of babies they will produce...
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