[billsreef]

Originally Posted by Luis A M

Sorry to disagree here,but it is always the male,not the female,the tending member of the pair in most marine fish,at least in all the tropical marine ornamentals that I know.

I had worked with this species in the past and posted it elsewhere.

I'd have double my check my notes on the pair I had breeding some years back. Unfortunately those notes are living in an attic back on LI. Pretty sure I recall it was the female of my pair that stayed behind in the burrow...based on body condition pre and post spawning. They had dug the burrow right down to the glass, and the tank stand was the sort that allowed me to look up from the bottom and spy on the nest and care.