They finally did it!

[Dispatch273]

I've been waiting for this pair to spawn for a couple of months now. Apparently all they needed was a little room of their own! Two days after putting them in my 75 gallon this is what I found...needless to say it made my afternoon!

Mamma guarding her eggs

The proud Papa!

Yes I know the glass is gross...sorry!

 

[cacichlids]

Congrats. That is a lot of eggs lol How big is she?

 

[Andrewtfw]

I expect your first batch to be huge! My regular Jds spawned for the first time last week. I would say there were 500-600 babies that first day. Now the batch is down to a couple hundred. I hope you have the same good fortune I did! Any clue as to what your fry should end up looking like?

 

[Dispatch273]

Congrats. That is a lot of eggs lol How big is she?

Thanks! She's a solid 7". She is one of my favorite fish, very colorful.

I expect your first batch to be huge! My regular Jds spawned for the first time last week. I would say there were 500-600 babies that first day. Now the batch is down to a couple hundred. I hope you have the same good fortune I did! Any clue as to what your fry should end up looking like?

There are a ton of eggs! I wasn't expecting her to lay this many, her belly was not round at all. The fry will look like a regular JD but will have the gold gene and possibly the blue gene. My goal is to eventually pair two fish together that have both the blue and gold gene.

 

[jweav]

Congrats! That is a huge batch of eggs.

 

[woofy]

holy fish eggs batman! thats alot of eggs. congrats. keeps him busy i guess until i can get the gold female for u

 

[Chrisplosion]

Damn thats gonna be a very large batch. Congrats!

 

[Dispatch273]

holy fish eggs batman! thats alot of eggs. congrats. keeps him busy i guess until i can get the gold female for u

I can't wait!!!

There really are a ton of eggs and as of yet only 2 have turned white. I know this female has laid eggs before so she's got some experience lol

 

[Dispatch273]

I'm bummed about 90% of the eggs turned white....better luck next time I guess.

 

[Gatorxxx420]

It took my regular Dempsey's a few spawns to get it down... once they did, it always looked like a swarm of gnats in the tank swimming around em. As soon as I get the baby Convicts and my Festae out of the divided side of my big tank and into my 40 for a while I'm going to put my EBJD and female Dempsey (I'm not 100% sure she's a BG carrier) on the divided side and hope to get a spawn or 3 out of em and find out if she is or not. Good luck with future spawns.