HRPs breeding in community.. advice please.

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mattison187

mattison187

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Ok so first off. The tank is a 4ft 75gal. The stock is 2f HRP aprox 2", 1m convict 3", 1m? blue acara 3", and a 6.5" srd male flowerhorn. Well for the last few weeks one of the redpoints and the con have paired. Sure enough I noticed they are guarding a batch of eggs as of yesterday morning. the tank remains relatively peacefull other then the fh taunting the pair here and there. The thing I'm wondering about is, will the agression of the pair increase once the eggs hatch or will it stay about the same? I'm not worried about my flowerhorn harming the cons(he is wayy to slow to catch them lol) as much as I worry about the cons pesturing the hell out of him(although a 1/4 his size they remind me of house flies buzzing around him lightning fast when they get going). Just give me some oppinions guys. Thanks.

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Bump. Still nothing.

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Not a parrot. Attitude galore flowerhorn lol. And that's what I'm worried of. He's constantly egging them on allready. He's use to just chasing them and they run and hide.

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I've had a pair of cons keep a almost full grown Oscar at bay when they had eggs.I'd just watch it carefully and make sure he's not overstepping his boundries to much

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Yea that's what I'm going to do for now. I seperated the cons into their own tank like a week ago and they like rejected each other. Only time they pair is in the community.

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Ok, so after much debate in my head, ii desided to separate the pair and eggs from the rest of the tank. I chose to put in a divider and give them around a 3rd of the tank over trying to move the eggs and catching the pair to have their own tank. So now all is well.

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