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It's around 3:30 PM, central time, 2-21-06. It appears as though this spawn may not have been the same "pairing" as our first spawn. In fact, we may indeed have 1 male and 2 females as I recently started to suspect.
This time around, the long-standing "alpha" fish, the female from the first spawn, appears to be the odd man out. The other "unknown" fish is REALLY fired up and is chasing her around. The male, with his SMALLER-than-the-first-spawn mouthful, is now displaying and hanging with the 'unknown' fish. SO...it would appear to be that our 2nd spawning was the same male and our original "odd man out", likely another female. So perhaps this 17 day window isn't entirely accurate considering that it likely looks that this 2nd spawn was NOT the first pair, but a 2nd pairing. Kinda throws a whole different wrench in the works when there's 2 females and 1 male, at least in figuring out how often they'll repeatedly spawn!
FWIW,
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