KMatysek
Member
Sadly, we lost our breeding female Ocellaris. They only just started spawning last November. They spawned a batch last night, and I guess that was it for her. Found her dead when I got home tonight.
She was at least 7 and they had been paired for maybe 3 years before spawning. I now need to decide whether to provide him a juvenile from one his own hatches or whether I should really get fresh genes. Any advice?
Also, if I do pair him with one of his own, I'm somewhat tempted to keep one of the more unique mis-bars from our hatches. Would that be a mistake (ie, are the mis-bars genetic or random developmental differences)? And how long might it take before we're spawning again? This wasn't something we were trying for, but now that we've had several successful hatches, I'm not going to know what to do with myself! (My youngest goes off to college in the fall and this was to be one of my distractions!)
Kathy
She was at least 7 and they had been paired for maybe 3 years before spawning. I now need to decide whether to provide him a juvenile from one his own hatches or whether I should really get fresh genes. Any advice?
Also, if I do pair him with one of his own, I'm somewhat tempted to keep one of the more unique mis-bars from our hatches. Would that be a mistake (ie, are the mis-bars genetic or random developmental differences)? And how long might it take before we're spawning again? This wasn't something we were trying for, but now that we've had several successful hatches, I'm not going to know what to do with myself! (My youngest goes off to college in the fall and this was to be one of my distractions!)
Kathy