So... About 5 days ago I went shopping for some aquarium stuff and finally (after a bloody year of searching for these fish) I got my hands on the last 3 they had , thing is... This 500iq fish store had em' labeled as "only males" so I kinda got bummed out as I really wanted to breed these fish.
Anyways decided to buy em ! Better than nothing at all and knowing that store... About 5% of the info they give may be right.
Went home placed em' in a quarantine tank and not even a hour after that 2 of them started chasing nipping the third one so I had to move him/her to my second qtank , the 2 left in the first tank started doing weird dances showing her belly to the other/vibrating then after like 3 days they started excavating sand like mad , didn't bother watching them further , just left them to their own devices.
Aaaand today booom I was looking around as I didn't see them anywhere then I look at the filter intake and see a crater under it , I look closer and see a bunch of eggs on the damn sponge (they had a coconut but I guess they considered the sponge as quality real estate lol..)
Sorry for my rambling just excited.
Now I do have a few questions:
1: Do they pair for life?
2:How long do these eggs usually take to hatch?
3: Do they require really soft water to hatch ? (like ramirezi eggs for example)
4:And do they need to go through a few failed batches to succeed?(I want to let them raise the fry)
And a more strange thing I heard about , are they able to actually change sexes influenced by their enviroment ?
And here are some photos of them kinda hard to catch the eggs too , they won't sit still for 1 sec
Anyways decided to buy em ! Better than nothing at all and knowing that store... About 5% of the info they give may be right.
Went home placed em' in a quarantine tank and not even a hour after that 2 of them started chasing nipping the third one so I had to move him/her to my second qtank , the 2 left in the first tank started doing weird dances showing her belly to the other/vibrating then after like 3 days they started excavating sand like mad , didn't bother watching them further , just left them to their own devices.
Aaaand today booom I was looking around as I didn't see them anywhere then I look at the filter intake and see a crater under it , I look closer and see a bunch of eggs on the damn sponge (they had a coconut but I guess they considered the sponge as quality real estate lol..)
Sorry for my rambling just excited.
Now I do have a few questions:
1: Do they pair for life?
2:How long do these eggs usually take to hatch?
3: Do they require really soft water to hatch ? (like ramirezi eggs for example)
4:And do they need to go through a few failed batches to succeed?(I want to let them raise the fry)
And a more strange thing I heard about , are they able to actually change sexes influenced by their enviroment ?
And here are some photos of them kinda hard to catch the eggs too , they won't sit still for 1 sec