Chocolate courting?

[hypselecara]

Eventually the pair formed!!! I'm so glad!
they're under a big driftwood and they 're cleaning both substrate and the driftwood too.
They're shacking heads and tails and they close the other 3 chocolates at the corner.

So guess they're breeding

 

[japes]

Sounds a bit that way, congrats.

Now you need a much bigger tank

 

[hypselecara]

I have to put out the other three for sure.

 

[Tongue33]

Sounds fuN!

 

[hypselecara]

the pair is currently lip-locking one each other.
I read in a chocolate breeding article (C.Kalinowski) the lip-lock occured during the breeding.

am I right?

 

[hypselecara]

no breeding for now.
something occured I guess but I haven't noticed any spawn.

another question.
I put in the tank several Gambusia Affinis, but Chocolates did not eat them
I know they're not piscivores in nature but I guessed they would like eat them.

your chocolates eat small fishes?

 

[japes]

Nope, Chocolates are too big and fat, too.

Try insects, they go absolutely nuts for bugs and insects.

 

[hypselecara]

crap.
now I have to fish out at least 15 small feeders.

 

[japes]

crap.
now I have to fish out at least 15 small feeders.

Try some insects if you can catch them (don't get ones that have been lying around the house those as they're probably poisoned.) Float them on the surface in the current.

Chocolates swimming at that weird 45 degree angle is because they're watching for bugs, you'll especially notice it at night if you're running your lights without any lid on the tank. They're watching the bugs, and when they get zapped because they get too close to the light, they'll get eaten.

 

[hypselecara]

sure japes I have already providede several kind of insects in the past months.