He's Quite a Guy!

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notho2000

notho2000

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This male Green Terror has a long history of being "single". I raised him from an egg and throughout his 2 years since maturing, has never been with a female. Well now it's happened. I managed to find a 'lady' for him and, if he could smile, would have a grin "from ear to ear", I'm sure. This is the same male that has been responsible for firming up pair bonds for Caquetaia kraussi and Hoplarchus psittacus pairs. He is the one who has been feverishly courting a female Geophagus abalios for the past year and who spent time guarding part of a spawn which he stole from a pair of 'kraussi'. This was a desperate, frustrated, but well meaning male. Well, it looks like that's all is about to change. His relationship with the new female is heating up. He is taking his time, being cool about it, but I suspect a spawn will take place within the next couple of days. And then there's the pair in my outdoor pond guarding fry. Here's a video of the "amorous one" in action.

[video=youtube_share;nLoWyxlIboc]http://youtu.be/nLoWyxlIboc[/video]
 
Congrats man!!! Send me some fry when they spawn!! Great looking GTs!


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Very nice gt. good luck with the pair
 
SePPii said:
Congrats man!!! Send me some fry when they spawn!! Great looking GTs!
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Thanks SePPii,


Jmart159 said:
Looks like things are working out pretty well. He looks good.
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I think he's one happy fish!

vinod_uthaiah said:
He has nice little hump on his head....let us know abt the developments...cheers !
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Will do.

fobrinkle said:
Very nice gt. good luck with the pair
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Thanks.
 
Nice gts. And the music was right on lol.

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My bachelor male GT behaved similarly. He would court any large moving object, including my finger. It's not an aggressive glass banging action, but head shaking courtship movement. The one in the video has passed on, but his bachelor son is doing the same thing, courting a vieja melanuras. My fish friend told me that his male GT would court a convict. So the odd behavior may not be odd for GTs. I have no other breeding CAs in the tank, so I don't know if he would kidpnap someone's fry and gruard them as his own.

[video=youtube;lfV8f0-G_z4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lfV8f0-G_z4[/video]
 
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