Our lions have paired up! Lionfish eggs!

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  1. Renee@LionfishLair

    Renee@LionfishLair 3reef Sponsor

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    This is a really bad video and for those of you that want coralline.... you won't during such occasions. This is kind of what a lionfish molt looks like, but it caught my attention that it wasn't floating in the same manner. Upon closer inspection I could see tiny eggs. Yahoo!!!

     
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  3. ifrizk

    ifrizk Astrea Snail

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    freaking amazing
     
  4. Jake

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    Congrats! Probably the 1st of many. Is there any information out there on raising the larvae?
     
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    Nobody has done it to date......
     
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    Very cool!
     
  7. Mr. Bill

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    Congratulations, Renee!

    May your lucky stars shine brightly and allow you to be the first. ;)
     
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  9. Renee@LionfishLair

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    You can see the two fuzzies in this video. I'm still not ready to say which is the female and which is the male. After the egg release, the brown one had an unusually full belly and the red one had an unusually slender stomach. Hopefully one day I will see one of them release the eggs.

    We just let these blow in the "wind" and eventually it disappeared. There's no sense collecting them if I have nothing ready for their arrival.

    We had a yellow fuzzy we've been growing up to go in here. Maybe now we'll start a new harem and leave this pair alone.

     
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