I’d like to get in line for some fry!
Chocolate Cichlid
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fishguy1978
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Eggs survived the night, fingers crossed.
fishguy1978
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Eggs are gone. Male is on the other side of the tank and the catfish are trolling the spawn site.
It is strange that the pair bond broke down right after spawning. Once that happens, the likelihood that a single parent (either one) will successfully brood the spawn is very low, because he/she is not receiving reinforcing behavioural cues from the other parent. Thus this outcome. Hopefully they will get it right next time, but be careful reintroducing the female to the male. I'd wait at least a few days to do that.
fishguy1978
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The pair bond with these two was never very strong. He was prepping the spawn site while chasing her away. During feeding he was only partly tolerant of her presence away from the right side of the tank.
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Moved the female choco back in with the male. She was immediately flirting and trying to please but he still isn’t interested. He’s not vicious mostly just pushing on her.
Nice!
My big male ( not really big at 8”) is really getting comfortable with my son feeding it. It comes right up to the back of the. Tank anytime he goes into the garage. He now recognized Logan as the one who drops pellets in. Haha
My big male ( not really big at 8”) is really getting comfortable with my son feeding it. It comes right up to the back of the. Tank anytime he goes into the garage. He now recognized Logan as the one who drops pellets in. Haha
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H temporalis juveniles
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Picked up three juveniles from AP a couple months ago. The runt was doing the spiral yesterday so I may find it dead today.
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All four choco monsters. Sorry that's as bright as I could get it.
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There's some pecking order squabbling going on between the Chocos. The female keeps chasing the largest male away while allowing the med juvenile to show interest. I have the new tank and am tempted to swap the med juvie and female into that tank to see if they would spawn.