How can I encourage my convicts to eat their young?
- Thread starter Thalassa
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Have you tried showing them the tuition costs of nearby universities?
I swear the only reason my bp con eggs haven’t hatched yet is because of me, they keep everything else far from the nest.
Do extremely intrusive waterchanges or rearrange the tank, anything that makes the parents cower in fear to the point that they decide "this isn't a suitable place to raise children"
Ok this is good advice, I was just considering feeding them less. I guess I could just scramble the eggs with an algae scraper.
If you can convince yourself that keeping your fish in a terrified state to encourage egg-eating is an ethical thing to do...and while I'm sure that this kind of psychological abuse would probably work...bear in mind that as soon as things settle down again, the female will lay another clutch and the cycle will repeat. Producing a clutch of eggs is a physically taxing biological exercise, and she will be doing it much more frequently if she never has the chance to tend the eggs and the young.
If you don't want a pair of fish to breed, you could...gee, I don't know...separate them? Just sayin'...
If you don't want a pair of fish to breed, you could...gee, I don't know...separate them? Just sayin'...