12/01/2007 - Day 22
By the 3rd day after those 5 babies were released prematurely 4 of them had died... they just wiggled around the first day a bit; a little less on the 2nd day, and died by day 3.
Not the best news - but, then again, not totally unexpected either...
There was one sole survivor left... he is the one that exhibited the most motion over the last few days. If he makes it I guess we'll name him "Lucky":
In this pic you can plainly see the yolk sac. There is only one of him; it's just his reflection on the bare glass bottom of the nursery tank.
Unfortunately, even "Lucky" wasn't so lucky - he died 2 days later...
So now it was around Day 24 since the spawning. Some folks were saying that maybe there weren't going to be any more babies; maybe those 5 were it, maybe the rest were lost since it was the first spawning, etc. But my male still had a full looking mouth; he still wasn't eating... and I wasn't about to put him back in the display tank just yet.
But I have to say that around this time it started to feel like he was
never gonna have those babies...
