Maseboogie
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So this isn’t a question more of a statement about how great apistos are at parenting. Yesterday I was getting ready for my weekly water change and I thought to my self let’s check the coconut hut for eggs! So I pick the hut up, and boom about 30 freshly hatched wigglers on the substrate. At first i was excited, then I quickly realized I have disturbed these little guys and the mother. So I quickly put the hut back down, but when I did a couple of them got pushed outside the hut. Me thinking to my self “u are an idiot” I sat there for a second and thought what to do. So I didn’t do a water change Bc I didn’t want to disturb them even more and have her eat them in panic. So that’s that fingers crossed that everything works out. I come back and check the tank a couple hours later and I realize the mother isn’t in the hut and the few fry that weee outside the hut were gone . Great. Then I notice that she is tucked in between a giant Java moss mess that I have in the corner and a price of driftwood. I look closer and to my astonishment she had dug out a little pit and there were all 30 something of the fry in this little pit between the moss and the wood! So awesome! I thought ahe would panic and eat them or abandon them but instead she move them to what she felt was a safer location. Goes to show u that these fish are better at fry care then we are. Once they are free swimming I will pull them and the mother to there own tank so they can be taught how to be apistogramma from the best! That is all