Within a few months, I obtained a second pair of wild caught Black Darwins. I bred them both with very limited success. One day my original female got a scratch on her head and within 2 days died from infection. Meanwhile back at the ranch, the other female was about to kill her mate for good reason…he was eating out of turn. I took the female from that pair and put it with my original male and that is where the magic began. My first successful hatch occurred on April 1st, 2012 and I’m not fooling. There were about 30 Zombies from that hatch most of which succumbed to new tank syndrome a year later. Three of those fish made their way to ORA about 4 years later.