Tatia intermedia spawned....again.

[franksaquarium]

Thought I'd post a couple of pics of the egg mass my Tatia intermedialaid today. This is their second spawn. I have a few fry from their first and hope to get many more from this one.

[Bas Pels]

Congratulations

on the first picture I see a little snail. Many snails like to eat fish eggs. Tatia eggs are surrounded by some gel, which might protect them, but I would be very carefull trying to remouve all snails from the tank. If that is poosible.

[franksaquarium]

I removed the snail right after the pic was taken. I have an infestation of pond snails in some of my tanks. I'm getting assassin snails to, hopefully, help with this problem.

[Nabobmob1]

Very cool Frank

Hoping to see some development pics

[franksaquarium]

Very cool Frank

Hoping to see some development pics

Here you go:



If you look closely, you'll see a tail-like appendage in the eggs. They move in a "tick-tock" manner (for lack of a better term). I'll see if I can get video. It's really interesting.

[franksaquarium]

Video of the eggs. Note the tick-tock motion. Sorry it's not clearer.

http://www.franksaquarium.com/images/20 ... 104116.mp4

[franksaquarium]

Video of newly hatched fry:

http://www.franksaquarium.com/swim_fry.mp4