Re: Mom not good enough

[Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@fgn.net>]

I've had males take over guarding fry before, but I can't remember ever having such
a polygamous species as A. cacatuoides undertake the role. More often than not the
male gets tired of the job and either ignores them (& the fry get eaten by other
tank mates) or they eat the fry themselves. Keep an eye on the male & his fry. If
they start disappearing you might want to separate the male from the fry.

Mike Wise

Apist-O-Rama wrote:

> My A. cacatuoides "Orange Flash" pair spawned a little over a week ago.
> (Thanks again Tomoko!!!) The other day I was looking and was sad to see
> that mom only had about 6~8 fry left with her. I figured that either mom
> ate the rest or they had died. So I started to look around the tank to see
> if I saw any dead fry. Then in the back of the tank I noticed a cloud of
> fry around dad! I guess he decided that mom wasn't doing a good enough job
> and took most of the babies for himself! It is sort of funny, they have the
> tank divided about in half and won't the other adult on their side. Dad has
> the better half with a nice piece of driftwood the fry like to explore around...
>
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