Well we're on day 6 of the L236 fanning. Finally spotted some yellow eggies under him last night. (Hooray! I was about to sell some as I thought they were all males!) I definitely saw 2 eggs (you'll have to believe me from the low grade photo from a screen shot from a video inside a dark cave). Not sure how many there'll be in total, but I think tomorrow should be the day we find out. Google tells me 6-8 days for hatching depending on temperature. I think I'm at the lower end of the temp scale. As soon as they wiggle, they're coming out or I'll be trying to pick them out of rainbow fish mouths I'm sure!
He's done a great job for what I assume is his first time. Interestingly, the other big male, nicknamed 'sausage fish' (because he's a chunk and his body is like a sausage) has spent the last 4 days or so, hanging out a cave in the pleco palace (big slate cave structure) occasionally fanning, with one of the smaller L236 sat on top. I wonder if this is another female as the yellow female of the successful spawn keeps hanging around on top of the cave with eggs in it. Seems that females hang around caves for some days before spawning. That'd be exciting if they start breeding too!
In other news, the white lumps/ growths/ body lumps have annoyingly come back on 2 females. I really don't know what to do. One seems fine, but the other lethargic. No other fish in the tank are affected again. Boesemani only. I'll try and squeeze a quarantine set up in over the weekend and see if any of the meds help this time. Sad to see, but weird it's just them.
She occasionally sits on top of the cave. He's not been out for food in 48hrs so very likely sat on eggs. Going to try and pull them out on Thursday so they don't get eaten in the big tank if they hatch.
