I'm not a supersticious person but it looks like the female Marble is ( knock on wood) over whatever she was suffering from cause today she was eating and taking names of anything that was getting in her way. Got my fingers and legs crossed that a spawn is just around the corner, poo, poo, poo.
I did a Bob today and did water changes on all my tanks. Unfortunately, the one KOI Veil pair I set up by themselves is not adjusting real well to the tank. It was the same tank that the Silvers were in and I just did a decent water change before I moved them into it. Hopefully after today's water change, they will act a little better.
HOWEVER, the tank of misfits and grow outs surprised me with the following: The pair of Marbles developed from a trio of Marbles-Gold/Marbles I picked up. Turned out to be 2 females and 1 male ( as I expected
). I also picked up a Gold/ Marble and a Gold Angel with the trio and that was what was growing out. The Gold/ Marble has been showing all the external signs of being a male so I had "him" in with the 3rd Marble and the Gold. In the last few days however, "He" has been chunking up and today, I could see "his" bits and pieces and he's not a he and the chunking up was with eggs. So now I see the fish going after the Gold and being more tolerant of the marble. CRAP, just what I need, a mated pair of spawning females
So I quickly added a Gold Marble I picked up on my trip up North that I'm 99.9% sure is a male ( always have to leave room for error
)right after I did the water change and added a second spawning slate to the tank. Since this fish is bigger than any of the fish in there, I'm figuring he will pick one of the females to spawn with ( and I know I would be asking too much for him to spawn with both females but I did put the slates fairly close to each other
) And maybe the Gold will take on the other one (but I think he's too small still.) Fast forward about 3 hours from the water change and I go look at them at don;t you know both females are cleaning a site and not doing it together. Maybe I can get lucky and have that turn into a breeding trio as they are all a form of Gold/Marble so I don't care which one or both he chooses. Either way, it looks like the brothel is filling up. I might have to give myself the ol' tank cheer :s
I'll keep y'all posted
