Kribs fighting

[Squirrelbuddies]

This is my story:

I have a male krib. One week ago I introduced a female krib (she had been in the quarantine tank.) Within 5 days there were eggs in the "cave" (flower pot looking thing.) 2 days after that the female began spitting all of the eggs out into the tank. Now there are no eggs.

The female continues to hang out in the cave and the male continues to patrol the right side of the tank.

However, now the female is attacking the male and won't let him "protect" his nest anymore. I don't think he realizes the eggs are all gone. At first he was just hiding from her, but now he is starting to fight back and they chase each other in tight circles.

I prefer to not separate them. I'm thinking I could remove the cave thing and maybe that would end the aggressive behaviour? Any other ideas?

 

[freddyk]

When you introduce one to another it doesn't always work out. I can tell you that if they don't calm down it could eventually lead to a fatality. The safest way to get them used to each other is to install a dividor and judge their behavior toward each other through it.

 

[Squirrelbuddies]

Well, this could have been a terribly tragic story, but it ended up ok...

The female was attacking the male and he was beginning to fight back. I had been peeking in the cave for the past two days and the eggs were all gone...not a sign of anything in there. She had been spitting them out into the open tank so I thought things just did not work out. I decided to rearrange the cave site to perhaps stop their fighting. When I picked it up---OMG!!--- many (like a LOT) of little squigglies came pouring out!!!

I put the cave thingy in the bucket of water I had siphoned out (I was doing a water change, too) because it all happened so fast I just didn't know what was going on for a few seconds. Quickly I replaced the cave to its original position and poor mom and dad spent the next hour picking babies out of the gravel and spitting them back in the cave.

I also realized there were about a dozen of them in the bucket of water and after 30 minutes I got them back in the tank, too (not easy to do because they stay on the bottom.) Every time I put the fish net in the tank with more babies, mom would swim into the net and take them out.

Anyway, the kribs stopped fighting and now they are parading the little ones around tank this afternoon!

I feel like such an idiot but I am so relieved it worked out ok and thank goodness my kribs are such great parents!!