Hi all
My big male apistogramma cacatuoides sunburst recently died of old age, leaving his one female partner, now alone in an 80L tank. Six months ago, his original partner died, so I replaced her with his current female, which has produced a couple of spawns over the last few months (now all sold or in seperate tanks) and been pretty happy.
As I want to keep breeding my apistos, I introduced my male's eldest son (now around 1 inch and pretty much mature, but slightly smaller than the female) to the female apisto, however it hasnt gone amazingly. The second I put his bag in she started tail flicking and getting pretty excited, good sign I thought. When I put him in, it was more tail flicking from both of them, which in my case usually leads to eggs. But then she stated to chase him and getting really aggressive. Whenever he went close to her she either lost all her colour and swam away terrified or attaced him!! So I had to take him out back to hism old tank.
Anyone ever seen this sort of behavior or know what to do?
My big male apistogramma cacatuoides sunburst recently died of old age, leaving his one female partner, now alone in an 80L tank. Six months ago, his original partner died, so I replaced her with his current female, which has produced a couple of spawns over the last few months (now all sold or in seperate tanks) and been pretty happy.
As I want to keep breeding my apistos, I introduced my male's eldest son (now around 1 inch and pretty much mature, but slightly smaller than the female) to the female apisto, however it hasnt gone amazingly. The second I put his bag in she started tail flicking and getting pretty excited, good sign I thought. When I put him in, it was more tail flicking from both of them, which in my case usually leads to eggs. But then she stated to chase him and getting really aggressive. Whenever he went close to her she either lost all her colour and swam away terrified or attaced him!! So I had to take him out back to hism old tank.
Anyone ever seen this sort of behavior or know what to do?