This is my first egg-layer spawn, and when I came back from my LFS today (ironic, almost) I noticed that my male is guarding a corner of a rock, and his female partner was hiding by my heater, with most of her coloring lost, her lips damaged (as were the males lips, and his fins slightly torn), and the male won't let the female close to his corner, which upon further inspection houses eggs. I removed the female in fear of her dying, and I was wondering if this was normal and if it was right of me to remove the female? The one other female in the tank, which was unpaired, is still perfectly fine, and doesn't get chased as much as the paired female, although she does get chased away. Normal? I feel like a total noob asking questions about Cons of all fish, spawning. But I'm just curious to know what's best and normal for all my fish, regardless of how dime-a-dozen they are.
Post-Spawning Con Behavior
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Mine went through four spawns with no problem. On the fifth the male tore the female up after she layed eggs.
This is their first spawn, but on your spawn where the male tore up the female, did the eggs turn out alright? I've never raised Egg-Layer fry before, so I want to do it, I'm just concerned about the babies not hatching or something. I just hope the male is enough to take care of the fry for atleast a couple days.
Well.. it appears the male ate all the eggs, or atleast all the eggs I can see. He is still guarding the spot vigorously, but I don't see any eggs. So we'll see in the next couple days how it works out.
They will move the fry around. Once they start swimming they make a new pit and keep chasing them back into it. After about a week they may take the fry on a guided tour of the tank, bad news for everyone else, eat the fry or just leave them to be eaten by something else.
fishdance;994533; said:
There's definately none left. The original mother was taken out of the tank, and is being held alone in a 10g. The male paried up with another female I introduced him to, in the 55g. Nothing from them so far, just swimming around together and hanging out in a cave together on occasion. No chasing my dithers from the cave, so I imagine no eggs. I'm very much happier with this female, because she is much more vividly coloured, and her finnage is better. She's the original one I was hoping for when there was 3 females and 1 male in the tank, so this is good. I'm been conditioning the pair on Blood worms, Brine Shrimp, with regular feedings of Hikari Bio Gold+. Water is prestine, doing 9% w/c about 3 times a day, and their vigor is increasing each day. I thought I saw the breeding tube of the female poking out a little bit, so we'll see how things go. Water is at 80.2 degrees F, and so it shouldn't be very long now. The two cories in the tank bred, but the fry got decimated really quickly by the cons, as expected.