This project has been quite the ride, to say the least. It started wild and crazy, and went down hill fast. After treatment all the fish except my one existing RSG female are doing well. She is in a QT but I have quit the meds and am just doing large WCs on her. This is one of the Ricky Lim fish that I believed was compromised due to hormone treatment before I purchased her. That left me with 4 fish in the contest tank.
I decided the day before yesterday to remove the 2 males and 1 of the females from the contest tank to concentrate on the pair I thought was the best choice to give me the offspring I wanted. All 120 gallons are now devoted to the Spotted Snake Skin male of my own breeding (he's a cross between a RSG and a Blue Scorpion) and a Classic Leopard female from Chicago Discus.
I am seeing flirting. The bow, and twitch, and stare at the cone, but so far no action.
In the event that the contest ends before I get the chance to take and post more pics, hopefully with eggs on the cone I want to say that even though I have struggled, I have enjoyed the contest greatly. There were some wonderful stories by all the other entrants. I want to wish everyone luck and thank Al, Pat and all the mods for having the test. I hope that we do something similar soon.
The pics are of the Spotted Blue SS that I have posted here before, a decent pic of his girl friend, and a couple of them loving up to one of Barb's tall cones.