Rd eats eggs.

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Marc280106

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Over the past few days my female had been cleaning her flower pot like crazy, so i removed the love door from the divder. She imediately darted across to the males side and started throwing water against his lateral line, he returned the favour, then went apes**t on her ass. She hung in their with him as long as she could yet couldn't take the heat, so she retreated. Today i notice she had/was laying on her side, yet the male was showing no interest. So i decided to remove the divider completely to see if he would fertilise them. He imediately cruised on over and despite her best efforts, pushed her out his way and begun consuming the eggs. This fella really has a monster attitude. I missed the part where he told her to "Get the **** out of my way!", but here's a short vid of him munching the eggs. My camera doesn't provide sound, but the sound of him whacking the eggs from the flower pot was pretty awsome, look closely and you will see the pot rocking back and forth after each mouthfull.

http://www.youtube.com/v/6YcBW5STRQI&rel=1
 
WOW MARC THAT MALE HAS GOTTEN HUGE
Congrats hope u have better luck next time.
 
Marc280106;1270386; said:
Over the past few days my female had been cleaning her flower pot like crazy, so i removed the love door from the divder. She imediately darted across to the males side and started throwing water against his lateral line, he returned the favour, then went apes**t on her ass. She hung in their with him as long as she could yet couldn't take the heat, so she retreated. Today i notice she had/was laying on her side, yet the male was showing no interest. So i decided to remove the divider completely to see if he would fertilise them. He imediately cruised on over and despite her best efforts, pushed her out his way and begun consuming the eggs. This fella really has a monster attitude. I missed the part where he told her to "Get the **** out of my way!", but here's a short vid of him munching the eggs. My camera doesn't provide sound, but the sound of him whacking the eggs from the flower pot was pretty awsome, look closely and you will see the pot rocking back and forth after each mouthfull.

http://www.youtube.com/v/6YcBW5STRQI&rel=1


I have this same problem with my spilurum..I have 7 fish in 55gal, 4 female and 3 male. Biggest male eats all spawn always...other also his...he batters his female every breeding time :-(
 
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