Help fast. Are my FHs fighting or breeding.

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Sounds like courtship, but I would still keep an eye out for aggression. Cichlids are unpredictable, and things can go south pretty fast. Note: bad thing tend to happen at night, and when you're on vacation.


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Blue Demp said:
Sounds like courtship, but I would still keep an eye out for aggression. Cichlids are unpredictable, and things can go south pretty fast. Note: bad thing tend to happen at night, and when you're on vacation.


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Night time is when is goes down in my tank, I've had fish be together weeks and snap in the middle of the night and wake up to splashing (my tanks are in my room)


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Should I put the divider back in at night. Also it looks like the female pushes on his head and around gill, once body with her lips open. Is this her testing him to see if he's worthy? They also go to lip lock sometimes but miss. They're also moving gravel and cleaning the plate. Are they getting ready to lay eggs.


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She gets mad when the male swims to the top of the tank away from the plate. She will also try to bite or push his gill or head and he turns into her and she stops or he try's to spin away and she stops.


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When they lay eggs should I take them out to the grow out tank, if so how can I artificially hatch them, or is it better to leave them with the parents. If I fiddle around with the divider will they not want to lay eggs, or will I spook them. Also if I leave them with patents should I keep the parents separate, even though fry can swim between mom and pa, or will they work together to raise them


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Oh yeah, I decided trying to keep them apart at night and together in the afternoon when I'm home. So together at 3:30-4pm and back apart at 10-10:30 and feed grand sumo food with blood worms every week or two.


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if there's hard biting that you can hear, or they go head to head, you better separate them.

Best show a video of what youre talking about.. If one fish is at the top tilted in any position, then it is getting hurt, and stressed.

If they do the flare, a circle, then one fish follows the other and start moving gravels and biting the walls then that is courtship.
 
I'm keeping then separated when I'm not home to prevent any surprise beatings while im gone. Should I just see if they will breed through te divider or let them together when te females tube is showing.


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If the male is bigger than the female this this method will work..... Make a tank separator out of egg crate and Make a hole just big enough for the female to fit threw so she can be with the male as she pleases or by her self


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