Thought I would do an update on the accidental breeding of our male Lemon Blue Eye L144 and one of our female Peppermint L181 just over a month ago.
Total of 78 eggs – 3 missed fertilisation
* 75 eggs hatched
* Lost 1 baby at 2 weeks
* 3 days later 6 babies escaped into the big tank from their floating box, one corner dipped down while fussing in the main tank, we haven't found any survivors sadly
* now at 5 weeks old we have 68 babies ranging in size from 2cm .78inch to 2.6cm just over 1 inch.
I have been quite fascinated with the colours which range from black with white markings, black with beige, dark brown with beige, golden noses with beige markings and golden eyes.
Mr Lemmy is now on eggs again but with another lemon, 2 of our girls were so insanely fat with eggs and desperately trying to get him going for 3 weeks. I'm looking forward to seeing these babies.
Our Peppermint colony has been moved into 2 tanks, we have had 2 spawns from 1 male but both times no fertilisation of eggs 🙁 I don't think he is experienced though so he gets another few goes before being swapped out lol
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Getting a total 68 babies out of 78 eggs? That’s honestly impressive, and even more so considering this was accidental.