Update! I was hoping to do monthly updates but life has been getting in the way so I haven't had much time to log in, but thought I'd log in and post an update since she's grown a bit and done some stuff... And I'm only a few weeks later than I'd hoped to be with it.
Firstly, her colours... Omg her colours! I wish my phone wasn't so crap so I could get pictures that actually show how pretty she is! Her seams are getting more and more iridescence as she grows and her blues and greens are really starting to pop, I should probably get off my lazy butt and get a decent camera so that when she's all grown up I can post pics that actually do her justice..
She'd be a little over 4" now, and hasn't really put on much length in the last month and half or so, she seems to be just getting thicker and taller, is this normal? If I remember right with Horrace once he hit the 5ish" mark he had "growth spurts" where he'd stop getting longer for a couple of months and get thicker, taller etc then put on more length and repeat until 11ish", so does this mean its healthy for River to do this too? I'm not even sure if it was healthy for Horrace to grow like that but he did...
Can anyone shed some light on this for me?
Anyways enough rambling, some pics! My phone takes terrible pictures and I'm a horrible photographer so they're not good pics but nonetheless..
A pic I took a few weeks ago:
And surprise! More eggs:
She laid these last Thursday night (or ungodly o'clock Friday morning) we woke up Friday and seen them. Again we just left them in there and she sorted them out. Even with the eggs in there she showed no aggression towards the widows unless they went near the rock, her behavior with them has surprised me, if anything the tetras are more aggressive than she is for the time being. Although she still doesn't like my mate... And hated him even more while she had eggs in the tank.
So.. In the eyes of the more experienced, does she look healthy? Is her growth rate normal? Basically, is there anything we need to change/do for her?
Thanks in advance.