LauraFrog
Fish Gatherer
They're frustrating me AGAIN. I've been trying for over a year now and still no successful spawn. This time it's really, really worrying me because I've been given the females to fix up, they are so swollen with eggs that there's going to be trouble if they DON'T spawn.
Done everything by the book. As per usual. Female has been in the chimney for over 24 hours, male has built a nest. Within 5 minutes of initial release, she was head down under the nest and barred up, and the male came at her, fully flared, and bit her hard. So she panicked, took off and hid. I left the pair for a few hours, most of the time the female hid at the opposite end of the tank from the male, occasionally ventured closer to the nest but was immediately driven away by the male. I put her back in the chimney, 2 hours later released again, the male attacked her straight away, she hid. I put her back in the chimney, where she is at the moment.
THis is EXACTLY what happened on my last attempt. Both times I've had a 10 gal, half filled tank set up exactly as it's supposed to be and conditioned pair. Last time nothing was happening after days of trying, the female was receptive but the male didn't seem to know what to do, attacked her, and she got scared and hid, every time I let her out after that she was too scared to go near the male or the nest, so nothing happened. That was a different pair, I'm not using either of the same fish this time. I don't understand why this keeps happening. What am I doing wrong? Why can everybody else get them to breed, but even when its' a positive emergency I can't?
Done everything by the book. As per usual. Female has been in the chimney for over 24 hours, male has built a nest. Within 5 minutes of initial release, she was head down under the nest and barred up, and the male came at her, fully flared, and bit her hard. So she panicked, took off and hid. I left the pair for a few hours, most of the time the female hid at the opposite end of the tank from the male, occasionally ventured closer to the nest but was immediately driven away by the male. I put her back in the chimney, 2 hours later released again, the male attacked her straight away, she hid. I put her back in the chimney, where she is at the moment.
THis is EXACTLY what happened on my last attempt. Both times I've had a 10 gal, half filled tank set up exactly as it's supposed to be and conditioned pair. Last time nothing was happening after days of trying, the female was receptive but the male didn't seem to know what to do, attacked her, and she got scared and hid, every time I let her out after that she was too scared to go near the male or the nest, so nothing happened. That was a different pair, I'm not using either of the same fish this time. I don't understand why this keeps happening. What am I doing wrong? Why can everybody else get them to breed, but even when its' a positive emergency I can't?