Fh behavior change!!! Male? Female?

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tooth517

tooth517

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Sep 21, 2009
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My fh has been acting odd for a couple days now doing things it has never done before! I think its hitting breeding age but is this male or female behavior?
1.recently started fading.
2.slight kok growth but still small for a 4" fh
3.stomach has been swollen for a few days (eggs maybe?)
4.recently started chasing my finger and ramming glass
5.today large white tube approx. 1/8" dia. hanging out vent
6.today started digging a deep wide hole in gravel right under the heater.
Is this female behavior? Am I seeing an egg tube? I wanted to post pics but the bugger wont stop moving long enough to get a good shot. Do fh's usually act this way when solo in a tank? This is my first fh and never had a cichlid behave like this at such a small size. Thanks for reading this!
 
Camphilophus;3785976; said:
Female about to lay eggs. Females tube will point forward when it's ready to lay eggs, males usually points kind of backwards.
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Ok. The tube curves slightly forward. I guess that explains the lack of kok!! Now she's trying to clean a rock next to the hole. All day I was worried about bloat or parasites and its just full of eggs!
 
hey tooth i am in the same boat, my female horn and a male trimac have been going at it for like a week and yet no eggs. their tubes have been out like the whole time they are both in breeding dress and the gravel looks like mountains! they have been at it so long the trimacs lips are getting kinda messed up from messing with the flowerhorn and digging ect.

i am hoping to get eggs soon even tho it prolly wont produce any great looking fry, this is my first time breeding and i am just trying to get the jist of things.
 
fishloaf666;3786149; said:
hey tooth i am in the same boat, my female horn and a male trimac have been going at it for like a week and yet no eggs. their tubes have been out like the whole time they are both in breeding dress and the gravel looks like mountains! they have been at it so long the trimacs lips are getting kinda messed up from messing with the flowerhorn and digging ect.

i am hoping to get eggs soon even tho it prolly wont produce any great looking fry, this is my first time breeding and i am just trying to get the jist of things.
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I HAVE EGGS DOOD! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY


and tooth, sounds like you need to get yours a mate :naughty:
 
there all males no female should have a "kok" lol jk
get her a mate!!!
 
tooth517;3791291; said:
I just got some kml fry so I hope she likes younger men! :naughty:
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better grow them out enough to where she cant beat there *** anymore, my fem ZZ was about to mate with a red devil but i guess it wasnt "manly" enough for her and she settled for a trimac (what a sl*t) lol

after breeding she tried to kill the trimac and the devil tried to eat the eggs so i had to seperate all the fish it sucked!

i guess with those fish i would try ( and am) the divider trick for breeding.
 
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