I was out of town for the weekend working and came home sunday to see that the oscars in the 1200 had spawned at some point over the weekend and decided to right in the middle of the tank! LOL They were having one heck of a time guarding the eggs, but had a few left... Sunday nite I decided to go into the tank to pull the eggs. They had laid them on a 4' stone which meant I had to break it. I managed to get it broken using another stone. (that was interesting) I used a bag to keep the eggs wet (this was something my Dad used to do with angelfish eggs)
24 Hours later I had got wrigglers! I had to hunt down methylne blue Sunday too... That was fun...
Just thought I'd share my excitement, there were rumors this male was infertile... It seems he's not! It's been a few years (17) since I've spawned oscars.
Yay!
Here's a few pics:
Ok, here's the tank:
For those of you who do not know of this tank here is it's shape:
On the far left in the front corner there's a pair of bifasciatum that have spawned. All the way on the right I had male hogoboormorum (or however you spell it) spawn with a femal barred midas. The oscars spawned right in the middle of the left window about two and a half feet from the front. This all happened within the last seven days! LOL
Here's the pair of oscars:
And here's their fry in a ten gallon in the fish room:
For fun here's a midas I pulled out the other day
... 12"
