Becca
. Still trying to get a good picture of the fry, but mom is clearly in breeding colors and guarding. The fry are in a deep pocket of a gnarled piece of driftwood.
Finally?!? 😁
This whole self-isolation thing has been great for my tanks and fish. And almost certain that my Bolivian rams have also spawned.
No, I definitely got them from you. I was just pretending to bristle at the idea that it “finally” happened ;-)
It was kind of weird how it happened, actually. I had been maintaining them around 76.5F because I read that they preferred things on the cooler side of tropical. I'm using an inkbird controller on that tank and somehow the temperature probe fell out of the tank (I'm certain that one of my cats knocked it out). Anyway, by the time I realized it, the temperature in the tank had risen to 86F. I did a quick partial water change and got it down to ~81F and then let it come down the rest of the way overnight. The next day she was fully in breeding colors and had apparently spawned. Important information for my BAP form, I suppose.
Tell me about it. I had done a very large water change earlier that morning and then I went down to check my tanks in the afternoon. I was like "Why does that controller say that the tank is 68.8F? Oh, crap, the probe fell out of the back of the tank!".