Feel like I need to bring my fish on Maury or something...
I'll start off with asking my question before getting into a whole story so I dont bore people before they read everything lol!
Has anyone ever had a tank with say 3 or more cichlids and ended up with a female laying eggs and protecting them... even finding out they have been fertilized but no Male taking their fatherly duties?
I'll start from the begining... basically I had purchased 2 flowerhorn at about 1 inch to grow out a bit before introducing to my Male who is now 6 inches in Hope's one of the two if not both would be female for breeding... jump ahead 4 weeks and I'm now also in possession of 3 carpintis for the same reason
1 of the 3 carpinitis turned out to be a Male and I suspected some incest between the Male and his sister... so I separated the Male and smaller female he WASNT FLIRTING WITH and put into the flowerhorn grow out tank
2 days later the little female has eggs and guarding for dear life! But neither the 2 flowerhorn or the Male carpintis are able to come even close to the eggs... so now I have wrigglers and dont know who the daddy is lol
I'll start off with asking my question before getting into a whole story so I dont bore people before they read everything lol!
Has anyone ever had a tank with say 3 or more cichlids and ended up with a female laying eggs and protecting them... even finding out they have been fertilized but no Male taking their fatherly duties?
I'll start from the begining... basically I had purchased 2 flowerhorn at about 1 inch to grow out a bit before introducing to my Male who is now 6 inches in Hope's one of the two if not both would be female for breeding... jump ahead 4 weeks and I'm now also in possession of 3 carpintis for the same reason
1 of the 3 carpinitis turned out to be a Male and I suspected some incest between the Male and his sister... so I separated the Male and smaller female he WASNT FLIRTING WITH and put into the flowerhorn grow out tank
2 days later the little female has eggs and guarding for dear life! But neither the 2 flowerhorn or the Male carpintis are able to come even close to the eggs... so now I have wrigglers and dont know who the daddy is lol
