Reply To: wohoo
At some point, it would be very interesting if we could arrange an experiment to see if leaving the fry in the tank with the parents results in lower fry survival rates than moving them out.
I’ve never seen the adults go after my fry (although I don’t spend ALL my time watching them), and I’m beginning to wonder if we know for sure whether or not they eat their own young. A side-by-side experiment where we had two tanks with similar numbers of breeding adults in each, would allow us to remove the fry from one tank, and leave the fry in the other, and see which method results in higher fry production.
(I know that many other species eat their own fry, but that doesn’t mean that -this- species necessarily does as well).
Of course, someone could come on here and say that they’ve actually -observed- the adults eating fry and then I’d say we all need to get fry tanks. :lol: