I do this often,,,
I Was going through the motions..yes .."lots of food for you"...."a smidgen for you",...and "just enough,,,, so you don't kill each other for you"....
and then..
I noticed little yellow blobs on the back glass glass of a tank,where none had been before..
OK, Here is the "back story"...
I purchased three "Buffalo head" cichlids ( as I have always referred to them)..over a year ago....I put the three in a 10 gallon tank by themselves . Unfortunately one of the fish met an early demise..
it happens..
The two that were left seemed to fight constantly. They chased each other, yet no severe harm seemed to come to either of them ,at any time.
I left the two in the tank and fed them copious amounts of high protein flake food.
Several months ago I threw in a layer of giant duckweed that shaded the tank from the 15 watt bulb over it.
many water changes, and many months later......
Tonight I found these,,,
After I obtained a better view by displacing a box filter blocking my line of sight,,the larger of the "pair" hurriedly removed any encroaching snail from the egg mass..busily protecting the spawn..
While not a new or extraordinary feat in the hobby I pursue,,,it is still a neat experience for me...
The fate of the fry?:
IF the eggs are fertile.
IF the parents don't eat them
IF the water parameters are correct
IF the foods I initially introduce are sufficient ...
I may obtain a few survivors..
and they are commonly called "lion heads" or Block heads"...
FISH BASE: Lionhead Cichlid
