Hey all. Thanks again for all the good advice i got awhile back when trying to decide on which Parachromis species to put in my 140 gallon. The choice in the end became a group of 11 Jaguar juveniles that were about 2 inches.
All fish were put into the tank, and after about a month or so i suddenly noticed one of the rocks were full of eggs. Yes ... a pair had formed and bred already, believe it or not. Yet another week or so passed, and suddenly the eggs were gone. At this time there were starting to be alot of small "fights" in the tank. Mostly show ... no injuries or jaw locking.
This is when i decided to try and take out most of them. I took out every fish except what i thought were the one pair , and a male and female in addition. Seems i were right... i now have 2 males and 2 females in the tank. The dominant male being about 4 inches, and incredibly beautiful.
Now the strange part... the subdominant male is keeping mostly in the background...nearly 1 inch shorter than the dominant one. The pair is still going strong, but at times the male just leaves his female in one corner of the tank, and switches over to the other one, and swim for a day or so with her. The females show almost no agression towards eachother, and the male only slightly to them both.
Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour before? Will i benefit from keeping two females in the tank, or will this end in one of them being killed at some point? I'm at the point now where i think i should remove the subdominant male, as he is even getting beaten up by the females.
Sorry for the wall of text.
P.S "I just got my new camera today, so will put up some pictures of them this weekend in this post for you all to check them out, if i can figure out how ^^"
-Kai
All fish were put into the tank, and after about a month or so i suddenly noticed one of the rocks were full of eggs. Yes ... a pair had formed and bred already, believe it or not. Yet another week or so passed, and suddenly the eggs were gone. At this time there were starting to be alot of small "fights" in the tank. Mostly show ... no injuries or jaw locking.
This is when i decided to try and take out most of them. I took out every fish except what i thought were the one pair , and a male and female in addition. Seems i were right... i now have 2 males and 2 females in the tank. The dominant male being about 4 inches, and incredibly beautiful.
Now the strange part... the subdominant male is keeping mostly in the background...nearly 1 inch shorter than the dominant one. The pair is still going strong, but at times the male just leaves his female in one corner of the tank, and switches over to the other one, and swim for a day or so with her. The females show almost no agression towards eachother, and the male only slightly to them both.
Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour before? Will i benefit from keeping two females in the tank, or will this end in one of them being killed at some point? I'm at the point now where i think i should remove the subdominant male, as he is even getting beaten up by the females.
Sorry for the wall of text.
P.S "I just got my new camera today, so will put up some pictures of them this weekend in this post for you all to check them out, if i can figure out how ^^"
-Kai
