lizardlady
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I have a pair of hector blennies in a forty gallon tank that has a healthy growth of algae and critters living in the algae. There is also a spawning pair of ocellaris in the tank but they don't seem to bother the blennies. I feed a homemade diet that I feed all my broodstock along with enriched artemi and water is kept at 21 with no nitrates. I have noticed lately that the larger blenny will become quite fat, almost as if she has swallowed a marble. Within a day or so of her getting fat they will swim close to each other, swimming side by side and backwards for long periods of time, especially later in the evening, then the next morning the male will be nowhere to be found and the female will be slim again. There is some live rock in the tank and it is the only place he could be hiding. After two to three days he will reappear non the worse for wear and looking as healthy as ever. I have set up a larvael snagger but haven't caught any babies yet, I am going to try putting a fine net box under the return of the standpipe in hopes of getting any babies that get sucked down. Is this spawning behavior or just my imagination lol
