i think my sens are porking

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i don't have a video, but they are nugging and circling...biting...twisting...rubbing...non-stop...they are always touching, but not in the normal bichir plie...i will try to get some pics of these actions, but i wish i could video it...they are 9"+ and they are in a 180gal so it is not agresstion like has been mentioned with these three before...could they be courting? they are 1.5yrs old or so...
 
i geuss one way to discribe it is kinda like a snake mating ball...i am loading some pics now...i know i got a male and female for sure, the third one i adopted and it has a diformed tale, so i am not 100%, but i think it is a male...they go up along the female and twitch like they are having a seziure...
 
they started doing this more yesterday and they haven't let up all day today...also there is no food in the tank so it is not like one has something and they want to eat it...

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also just above their anal fin there is a linner swelling that i can't get in any pics...
 
Awesome! Ive got three endlies doing the same thing, never leave each other. One female being chased by two males. Never had more than one endlie so i figured it was normal behavior for them. Lots of bumping nudging.
 
sounds like it. ur gonna have a few hundred bundles of joy soon lol Congrats
 
i don't know if i should seperate them from the tank or what...my endli has come up to them several times looking for food to steal...in fact you can see it in the background of a few pics with a look like "yum yums?!?"...that and i don't think that baby sens could last long with, large ck, pbass, gar, ornate, endli, aros, dats, bgk and a lima cat as tankmates...i don't want to move them as they did this alittle before then i moved them to a diff tank and they stopped...
 
is any of the males flexing his anal fin?
 
iloveoscars702;4239752; said:
is any of the males flexing his anal fin?

if you mean "cupping" then yes there is "cupping"...both males bend their anal fins into a bowl shape when they come neer the female and start rubbing...
 
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