11/11/ 2007 - Day Three
By the 3rd day I knew something was definitely up. For a few reasons:
1) The male had still not eaten. Now it was 3 days in a row. Definitely not normal for him
2) He started to come out a bit from behind the rockwork and I was able to snap a good pic of his full mouth:
Everyone who saw the pic said, "Yep, he is holding eggs"... so I felt pretty confident
3) Now the
females behavior had changed a little, too... she started staying by the males side alot more; only venturing away from him at feeding time. If she percieved a threat (like when I got too close to the tank glass, or stuck my hand in to move a coral, etc) she would swim alongside the male tightly, almost touching side-to-side, like this:
And now you could see the difference in appearance between the 2 fish was obvious. So it was time to decide on what to do about trying to catch the male and (hopefully) get a live "birth" and raise some babies!
(Tomorrow, setting up the "nursery tank"...)