A Look At The Babies

  I mentioned last night that the eggs had hatched.The thing is that was only a tiny portion of em.This morning I saw a whole mass of wriggling tails hanging from under the bubble nest.I estimate that there must be around 50 plus babies.Hard to tell as I don't want to get too close and make the dad frisky.I'd smack myself if he ate em on account of my big nosy self.

Barely a day old fry below bubble nest

  If you look really close just under the bubble nest, you can see tiny nearly transparent tails hanging under it.And maybe small black eyes that look like dots.They're really tiny,even smaller than guppy fry.About the thickness of a strand of hair.And you can see their white yolk sacs that will be there for a few days till it's been fully consumed.They keep falling out of the nest only to wriggle back up.These lil guys are feisty I must say.Not much work for Fred to deal with coz they seem pretty independent but he still watches out for them

You can see the fry falling down and swimming back up again in this short video here.Really cute