today, round noon I peaked and observed a small clutch of eggs stuck on the roof inside the cave. Looked good. I was a fairly small clutch so could be another females first try.
This afternoon the male was out and not returning to the cave, the eggs were gone, he doesn’t seem to be guarding anything elsewhere in the tank so I will mark, breeding #3 a failure… at spawning. Not failure for me, learning something new almost everyday.