Convicts recently bred for the second time, conveniently on a flat rock.
Today I moved the rock, and then the father and then the mother into an identical container.
Obviously being stressed from this, they hid, then they came out and about and started fighting/liplocking for a while. They seem to have brightened up after washing out during the move, but the female obviously has no viable eggs to offer.
They have completely ignored their eggs sitting the in middle of the container.
My fear is that they will eat them when the lights go off, not recognizing them as their own young.
Should I move the parents for safetys sake (the eggs are catching circulation from the pump outake) or let the eggs become wigglers (which i really fear they'll be eaten then)
Lesson learned, do not disturb.
Today I moved the rock, and then the father and then the mother into an identical container.
Obviously being stressed from this, they hid, then they came out and about and started fighting/liplocking for a while. They seem to have brightened up after washing out during the move, but the female obviously has no viable eggs to offer.
They have completely ignored their eggs sitting the in middle of the container.
My fear is that they will eat them when the lights go off, not recognizing them as their own young.
Should I move the parents for safetys sake (the eggs are catching circulation from the pump outake) or let the eggs become wigglers (which i really fear they'll be eaten then)
Lesson learned, do not disturb.
