Pair in love!

Clean water and it will heal up in no time

kizno1 wrote:Clean water and it will heal up in no time

Thats what iv been doing but maybe a week isnt long enough, lol!!

Haha. Hes probably more interested in the girl than growning his tail lol.

True true,lol!!

Hen hes getting conditioned the extra live foods might help it grow aswell. Jus hope the female doesnt decide to shred it.

I know im a bit worring about that too but hopefully she'll be gentle with him! I tried with the defrosted bloodworms but he kept pulling his nose up and them, she was a little the same but the live worms he flares at them and eats them up she's still very warey of what they are. Im waiting on the pink tub of Ocean Atison pellets but at the mo iv been giving them the Hikari pellets and the live bloodworm. ( i reckon they wouldve turned up today if it wasnt for the bank holiday!!)

Aslong as you keep watching and remove her if theres any fighting it shouldnt be to bad. Maybe she just needs a few more days to settle in. She will eat them ones she gets hungry. I know how you feel ive run out of pellets for my catfish and i should have had 2KG of them coming today but the cats will have to wait to tomorrow.

Well things didnt go the way i wanted them to go, he was very protective over his nest and whenever she went up to the nest having a look he would literally chase her away round the tank...so she went back into hiding!

This was happening on every occasion they where in the tank together i would get excited when he was under his nest wiggling at her and then she'd go up under the nest to see him she'd wait then he'd flare and chase her away...maybe thats part of the process

On the last time of letting her out she was really fat with eggs and she'd been dropping them so let her out and the same things would happen she was really interested in him and he didnt seem to be that interested in her and over protective of HIS bubble nest. He was very aggressive towards her and she was getting nipped quite a lot.

The next day she was very slim so she'd obvisously released her eggs and she seemed stressed to be near him so iv now put her in a floating box in the girls tank she seems very settled at the moment with no stress lines and seems happy to be back with the girls.

Its quite annoying at times even though i know i need patience and i was very patient (not like me ) but wanted it to run as smoothly as possible. Iv not given up on breeding but will have to choose a suitable pair to condition...theres no rush as i want it to go smoothly

Hi Nat.

Sorry it didn't go right. It's frustrating isn't it? I found that the longer you leave the male in the breeding tank, the more territorial he gets about the place, and unwilling to share it with the female when she is released in with him, even if she was only seperated by a divider. I also read up on this theory online, but every fish is different so who knows, lol. But I'm not putting a male in the breeding tank until the day or night before I plan to put the female in/near, so he doesn't get too possessive over the tank. But there will always be some chasing, and it can go on for ages and get ugly (it went on for about 2 days with my dragons before they got too horny and started embracing, and Luna did get a bit battered) and frustrating when one of them seems eager and the other doesn't.

Also, if your breeding tank has gravel in it you may want to take it all out before your next go, because when you do get a sucessful spawn, the male will find it hard to pick up the tiny eggs that drop and fall between the gravel, and he may not be able to get them all into the nest, and then the ones that are lost in the gravel will slowly go bad.

I'm conditioning a pair of CT's at the moment and hope to try again on Monday :-) We'll all get there in the end! x

Sorry it didn't go to plan none of us are having much luck atm it seems!

I'm betting its gonna be "wham bam thank you Mam" all at once!

F.Banks wrote:I'm betting its gonna be "wham bam thank you Mam" all at once!

Your so funny but probably right, im trying to find out the in's and out's of the DRCT boys and girls, as im thinking of breeding a brother and sister. Conditioning them since things went bad with my mg girl. The DRCT girl im conditioning is already very big but she'll probably get a lot bigger.

The male has already built a huge nest under the IAL iv put in there...im keeping fingers crossed for us all.