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Originally Posted by billsreef
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.
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When some brooding care is provided to the spawn;be it nest care,pouch brooding,mouth brooding or egg ball care,it is the male the one who takes the chore.
This is particularly true with gobies,where even if there are about 2,000 species with many different ways of life,it is always the father who cares for the nest.Quoting from "The Biology of Gobies"(CRC Press,2011):
"a basic reproductive pattern shared by all gobies consisting of the laying of demersal eggs cared for by the male until hatching"