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I've had a pair of Brevis for over a year now, and I've noticed a couple of times over the past year, their attempts to raise a brood of fry, but due to their tank mates, their fry never got much of a chance.
I felt sorry for them and gave them a 29 gallon tank to them selves and now they have three different broods of fry in the tank with them. I am amazed at just how small these little guys/gals are.....at this rate of growth it will be the middle of summer or longer before I can offer them up for grabs. I am also amazed at the parents and how they respond to their fry, they have them in their shell and then they kick them out and push them off to the opposite side of the tank.
At least this is what appears to have been happening, I cannot say for sure, because I don't sit and watch the entire process. But it does surprise me how the parents don't seem to have any interest in their fry, they don't protect them at all, and I'm facinated with the way they stay so close to their shell. It's amazing to me, how their lives, they seem to be so centered in and around, their one little shell in the corner.
CF
I felt sorry for them and gave them a 29 gallon tank to them selves and now they have three different broods of fry in the tank with them. I am amazed at just how small these little guys/gals are.....at this rate of growth it will be the middle of summer or longer before I can offer them up for grabs. I am also amazed at the parents and how they respond to their fry, they have them in their shell and then they kick them out and push them off to the opposite side of the tank.
At least this is what appears to have been happening, I cannot say for sure, because I don't sit and watch the entire process. But it does surprise me how the parents don't seem to have any interest in their fry, they don't protect them at all, and I'm facinated with the way they stay so close to their shell. It's amazing to me, how their lives, they seem to be so centered in and around, their one little shell in the corner.
CF
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