LauraFrog
Fish Gatherer
I have to be off in 5 so I'll make this quick:
Finally got a decent CT pair, they are solid silver and really nice lookers. I conditioned for 11 days in separate tanks, Twilight (the girl) was getting eggy. Then I brought home some rescues and I needed the separate tanks to quarantine them. I put them on opposite sides of a clear divider and kept conditioning. Twilight filled up with eggs - she is HUGE - and Moonshine, the male, blew this huge nest. This morning, the nest was big and in good condition and the female staring through the divider at the male, showing clear vertical bars and eggy. So I removed the divider. She swam over, inspected the nest, dropped her head and waved her fins at him - and he flew over in full flare and bit her. Then there was a panicked chase around the tank, I decided I'd removed the divider too early and I replaced it. In the panicked chase he managed to wreck his nest, so I gave him a few hours to fix it. But the female was looking really interested again, so I took out the divider again. She keeps going over to the nest and assuming various postures, on her side, vertical in the water, etc. but the male for some reason does not seem to recognise receptive behavior. So every time she tries, he attacks her and after a few minutes she gets sick of him trying to beat the crap out of her. So she swims up the other end of the tank and he frantically repairs the nest and then hovers under it. Every time she comes too close while he's building it, he flares at her and she backs off. There is NO WAY I'm trying to spawn a plakat male here, this is defo a female.
At one point he tried to wrap her, but he grabbed her round the head. She slipped away from him - probably unintentionally - hid in a corner and he came and bit a few filaments off her tail. Then he madly chased her round the tank, and just as I was picking up the divider to put it back, he crashed into a plastic plant then returned to his nest and started working on it again.
He's not really hurting her, her worst injury is a few rays on the anal fin bitten off. Should I leave them or have I done something wrong?
Finally got a decent CT pair, they are solid silver and really nice lookers. I conditioned for 11 days in separate tanks, Twilight (the girl) was getting eggy. Then I brought home some rescues and I needed the separate tanks to quarantine them. I put them on opposite sides of a clear divider and kept conditioning. Twilight filled up with eggs - she is HUGE - and Moonshine, the male, blew this huge nest. This morning, the nest was big and in good condition and the female staring through the divider at the male, showing clear vertical bars and eggy. So I removed the divider. She swam over, inspected the nest, dropped her head and waved her fins at him - and he flew over in full flare and bit her. Then there was a panicked chase around the tank, I decided I'd removed the divider too early and I replaced it. In the panicked chase he managed to wreck his nest, so I gave him a few hours to fix it. But the female was looking really interested again, so I took out the divider again. She keeps going over to the nest and assuming various postures, on her side, vertical in the water, etc. but the male for some reason does not seem to recognise receptive behavior. So every time she tries, he attacks her and after a few minutes she gets sick of him trying to beat the crap out of her. So she swims up the other end of the tank and he frantically repairs the nest and then hovers under it. Every time she comes too close while he's building it, he flares at her and she backs off. There is NO WAY I'm trying to spawn a plakat male here, this is defo a female.
At one point he tried to wrap her, but he grabbed her round the head. She slipped away from him - probably unintentionally - hid in a corner and he came and bit a few filaments off her tail. Then he madly chased her round the tank, and just as I was picking up the divider to put it back, he crashed into a plastic plant then returned to his nest and started working on it again.
He's not really hurting her, her worst injury is a few rays on the anal fin bitten off. Should I leave them or have I done something wrong?
