spawning update

Last night Skye looked better, was using the fin again normal. The parents not fanning as closely, nor hovering around the leaf as much, but seemed to be prepping a few more anubias leaves around the tank. The eggs looked larger, I expected to find wigglers in the morning. Most of the leaf empty, though- of white shreds. Only saw about forty good eggs left. Still ok with that.

Yep, in the morning found some wigglers. Very few. I think less than twenty, maybe only a dozen. They're on the backside of a leaf so hard to tell. Parents moved them all from the egg leaf. Which was once again picked clean- so the kuhlis weren't to blame after all. Either lots of eggs got fungus, or the parents overdid the cleaning job and picked many good eggs off too. Night before when the wigglers were hatching, M Beautiful seemed put out that she was tending them and moving them on her own- Skye was on the other side of the tank, just sitting there. Not sure if because he felt bad from running into the tank walls or simply wasn't interested. Female went after him- snapping, threatening, making nasty quick feints horizontal attack mode. I really do think she was angry he wasn't helping.

This morning she was often - but not always- near the leaf with the wigglers, and searching for ones that fell, below under the plants. Skye not showing much interest. I'm pretty sure already lost half the wigglers.