This pair was together with no divider, and did show lots of promising behavior, flaring, flirting, digging pits together etc. The male only occasionally harrassed her. The worst he did was chase her into a corner, maybe the odd nip. They were together for weeks with no divider, they've only had the divider for approximately two weeks. As you can clearly see in the pic, she is pretty un-tattered. I had very good reason to believe they were an otherwise compatible pair.
I actually witnessed them spawning, the male was clearly doing his best to point and spray all along the spawn site. Do I think there will be a high % of fertile eggs? No, I do not.
the animal guy said: And you tell by looking at your fish's behaviors if they are a pair gonna breed or they are NOT a pair and need divider. I beg to differ. I've paired literally dozens of fish that were initially aggressive to each other in this manner, & 100% of the time I was able to get them to pair bond & spawn, with (eventually) no divider. I in fact just recently paired a carpintis to a syn using this method.
I had no intention of breeding them in this way, so unfortunately the only current is being provided by the spraybar on the canister filter. Not very conducive to a succesful divider spawn.
As I had no desire to spawn them in this tank, I did not (as my first post, and the thread title as well), clearly stated, have any intention of breeding them in this manner.
Thank's for all the wishes for luck, fingers crossed!
Thank you for your observations the animal guy, very informative.
