Jawfish Eggs about to Hatch
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| Photo and caption by Suzan Meldonian |
A male Banded Jawfish (Opistognathus macrognathus), incubates it's eggs in it's mouth, assuring survival of at least this stage of their lives. Held in by it's father's teeth at some point the overgrown siblings become cumbersome, yet the devotion of survival mode is so strong that the jawfish will only poof them out for a second or two to quickly catch a morsel of food in the water column, then quickly sucking the eggs back into it's mouth. This process is also called aerating the eggs... so it serves more than one purpose... sort of like rotating the eggs in a hatchery.
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