Amazing: mbuna keeps eggs when separated for 6 hours

[popcorn1]

good stuff. stripped undeveloped eggs from my female auratus at 1 am. had her in the same breeder hangon box with a divider in between. i left the lights on for the next couple of hours and then turned them off. turned them back on at 6am and separated the female. for the next hour i tried to find a way to get the eggs tumbling through the hangon breeder. gave up and tried to see if she would take the eggs back in. SHE DID.

last time i did this my other female ate the freeswimmin fry. so mbunas will keep their eggs even through all that stress.

 

[mike dunagan]

pretty cool... let us know if they hatch...

 

[Muske]

Any fry?

 

[popcorn1]

yeah she still has them in her mouth. its just surprising that she went through all that stress and time being separated from the eggs and still kept them. i THINK most others would eat the eggs or forget them as their own. my other one ate its freeswimmin fry when i stripped her.