BN eggs
Posted by Anja on April 8, 2012 at 18:57 | Last modified: July 8, 2012 21:25Update: The babies are barely 3/4″, and we already have eggs again. At this rate I’ll have to part the lovers. I don’t have room for so many babies. They’re awfully cute, though, I must say.
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Posted by Anja on March 24, 2012 at 18:53 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 15:35Most of the muck’s out, and the fish are back in. Usually I also put the tropical plants back in on spring-cleaning day, but they will have to stay inside until the last frost day. We’re so unbelievably early this year. But with the heat we had turning the water yucky, it was time to get the pump back in and the filter going.
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Posted by Anja on at 16:03 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 15:35Muck day for us means Spa Day for the fish. Meanwhile the frogs are all: ‘Dude, what’s going on?’
BN hatchlings
Posted by Anja on March 14, 2012 at 09:55 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 00:07This morning all but three have left the cave, but daddy’s vigilant to the end. He’s just declared a blood feud on French-cut green beans.
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Posted by Anja on March 13, 2012 at 16:08 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 15:36I think 5 of them have left the cave now. Here are some pics of daddy doing the guarding thing, the cave dwellers and one of the bold explorers.
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Yay!
Posted by Anja on at 14:33 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 17:32All three of our goldfish survived the winter. The pond is mostly ice-free by now, and I also saw 5 of the minnows and a frog.
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Posted by Anja on at 12:43 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 00:16The first two or three enterprising youngsters have left the cave and are whizzing around all over the tank. Daddy’s still faithfully guarding the bulk of them, chilling in the cave.
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Posted by Anja on March 8, 2012 at 15:49 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 00:17Just snuck a peek into the cave with a flashlight. Very briefly, so as not to set daddy BN off again. Some of the eggs seem to have hatched, still attached to the wall, but lotsa wiggling going on in there.
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Posted by Anja on March 6, 2012 at 17:10 | Last modified: July 9, 2012 00:18He’s fanning those eggs furiously every time I look. And when he sees me coming around the corner, he turns and displays his barbs. He might only be two inches long, but he’s fierce, baby.
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Posted by Anja on at 13:24 | Last modified: July 11, 2012 18:39Came home Sunday night to my BN pair’s first eggs. Only a few of them in the cave, but the male is taking his daddy duties very seriously. I was trying to help him along today by dropping an algae cookie by his side, and he wen completely ballistic. Muck churning, he drove that little tablet as far away from the cave as possible. I think we can safely say the algae cookie is dead now. Whoa.
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