So I was on my way to diner when I put that last post up, there was maybe 5 - 20 floating babies in the tank. We got back about 8pm and all the eggs are hatched with babies, tons of babies swimming about. I, myself have never seen or heard of a fish laying eggs that hatch within hours, or even same day for that matter.
I have dispersed about 10-20 per tank through my tanks to "experiment" I guess. Some fresh, some brackish, some harder water some softer water. Really interested to see what works. All the fry have been moving in the tanks for close to an hour, will keep close eyes on all of them.
One difference I have noticed about this time as opposed to last time, the smaller darker parent puffer is eating them, the larger brighter parent hasn't taken any interest. I brought up the looks to the puffers because I really want to know which is producing the eggs, I had to have missed it today by no more than 2 hours. I have an arlo security cam I used to use to put out to watch packages. Based on the time between when they spawned last and when they spawned this time was about 3 weeks, so about 2 weeks from now I will set it up on the tank so I can catch the egg laying on camera. The differences in these two figure 8's from size, color, and aggressiveness is very drastic, and finding out who's the egg holder may give a lot of insight into sexing them and things of that nature.