Your observations about the females dropping over a period of time on occasion rather than all at once seems to explain what others have asked here and possibly what I have been seeing over the last couple of days. You've made me want to separate my fish out more so I can observe exactly who's doing what.

<quote>In small tests that I have done I have noticed that it approxamtly takes a 4 month gestation period before the first drop (but have had earlier on occasion.<endquote>
Did you mean here that the fish are about 4 months old when they drop their first batch of fry?

How can you say that you are not that smart when you've just written all this! Yeah there are spelling and grammar errors but that's not an indication of intelligence and you've just shown us what you are capable of. I'd have a go at fixing the spelling (but I'm not so good on grammar myself) except that too many things go flying off into outer cyberspace round here and I might lose it which would be a tragedy.

Thankyou for sharing all your info with us.