Length of time of spawning? Are they spawning?

[madasa]

Greetings everyone

My marlboro reds - in particular the male - began bowing at one another yesterday and I saw that the female egg tube had dropped. This was all they were doing and today it isnt happening and the tube is gone.

Is this the start or has an opportunity been missed?

Pete

[ILLUSN]

just the start i think how old are the fish?

[madasa]

I think I was told three and a half having spawned seven or eight times previously. Tonight I saw what appeared to be the commencement of the cleaning of the site but it was brief