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SGypsyMermaid
07-13-2003, 09:09 AM
yesterday, i noticed some odd behaviour in my mbuna/vic tank(90 gal. mbuna metropolis). one of the younger "ishmaeli" females was doing the spawning dance with the xmas fulu and was making no attempt to pick up the eggs(the other fish were having a feast!). even when she swam away from the spawning site, she continued to drop eggs, and just swam away from them...maybe she didn't want any hybrids, either.
merlyn2221
07-13-2003, 08:50 PM
Sounds like a smart girl to me!
SGypsyMermaid
07-13-2003, 09:00 PM
:wink:
Boilermaker
07-14-2003, 01:20 AM
I think S.gypsy's tanks are so overcrowded, that she had a major case of stagefright :razz:
SGypsyMermaid
07-14-2003, 04:07 AM
definitely a possibility.:D
SGypsyMermaid
07-23-2003, 02:13 PM
ok...here's part two...i just saw the black fin lethrinops spawning in midwater! i saw her catch one of the eggs, but many more were eaten. the lethrinops are low in the pecking order in that tank(70 gal. malawi/vic haps and fronts), so i guess that they couldn't claim a patch of sand, but boy, are they determined!:eeek:
Boilermaker
07-25-2003, 04:15 PM
Hi S.Gypsy, just noticed this post, I observed my black fin spawning on the 23rd while we had company over with everyones nose against the glass, seems like they knew they were the main attraction lol.
SGypsyMermaid
07-25-2003, 05:02 PM
exhibitionist tangs!:rofl:
Overawed
07-26-2003, 11:35 AM
tangs gone wild
SGypsyMermaid
10-04-2003, 11:47 AM
that dingbat "ishmaeli" female is at it again! this time with a twist: since the blackout, there have been no males in the tank, just 4 females. all of them have colored up intensely in the absence of the more dominant males. well, yesterday i got a new male and i figured there was gonna be an or*y...but the dingbat was fanning the females and dropping eggs all the while and never even looking at them! i think that she is retarded!:eeek: :yikes: :drink: :shock2:
aharris
10-04-2003, 01:22 PM
Maybe she's just not at all interested in motherhood. She's a progressive feminist cichlid or something.

Maybe she's just by-curious . . .
tom
10-04-2003, 02:26 PM
Originally posted by aharris


Maybe she's just by-curious . . .

[:groan:] but :lol:
aharris
10-04-2003, 03:30 PM
Animals can rarely have same sex pairings. Or maybe she's got some genetic mutation that would be better found in those critters who can spontaneously change sex? There are reef fish that do that aren't there?

If you're trying really ahrd to breed the fish, it would be really annoying. If not, she's an interesting conversation piece, and an example of the oddities in nature.
SGypsyMermaid
10-04-2003, 06:25 PM
Originally posted by aharris
Maybe she's just not at all interested in motherhood. She's a progressive feminist cichlid or something.

Maybe she's just by-curious . . .

:rofl: i was thinking that maybe she's got an extra chromosome, or something.
tom
10-04-2003, 06:29 PM
:lol:

And that, sports fans, was a rare triple entendre.

:dance:

(hmmm...I don't think Mr. Davis is the only one about to get recalled.)
SGypsyMermaid
10-04-2003, 06:55 PM
poor tom...flipped his wig. we loved him well.:( :twisted: :razz:
SGypsyMermaid
03-05-2004, 12:16 PM
Originally posted by aharris
Animals can rarely have same sex pairings. .

actually, i think that it happens more frequently than you might think due to the stress of captivity. i remember some years ago, reading about it occurring pretty frequently with captive primates.
SGypsyMermaid
05-02-2004, 12:16 PM
caught my school of s. multis either trying to spawn with a pair of my half crimsons, or just trying to steal eggs. what looked strange was the fact that sometimes a syno nudged the male's anal fin--the only thing that i could figure was that they were fooled by his eggspots while trying to steal eggs. it always ended with the male half crimson handing out a syno beatdown!:D