behavior

Has anyone ever heard of a male BNP picking up & moving eggs in and out of their breeding cave. I have a V shaped tree stump in my 45 high the right stump is hollow and thats where all my BNP breed. I just got a new adult male german super red on wedensday. He bred with my female on friday night...

For the first time with my Cutteri pair, the male is beat to hell, and the female is aggressive. Check ot out. I dont know if the male will make it. He's layin on his side in the brush. Or maybe hes just...uh...spent? https://youtu.be/rrrhz7N546I Btw, I cant remember what this brush plant is...

K so in one if my tanks with no females in it I noticed the males circling and re enacting the mating dance....I know they are male. They have bred with their females that I keep in separate tank. I know the difference between a fight and mating They are taking turns chasing the egg spots. I...

Turned on the lights and caught these two "making out" this AM... v75Z8x2MDU8 Yes, I know this is aggression. These are two females, so that makes it extra sexy, right?

The way these guys have been going at it, I'm moderately concerned that war is on the horizon. b64Jwv9leQY There's also been a lot of prolonged lip wrestling. I hope they all get through being hormonal teenagers without any casualties.

So my two largest Guianacara started "dancing" yesterday evening, after a meal of Repashy Spawn n' Grow and some Morning Wood they stole from my L052s. I'm not really sure what species they are, actually, maybe no one is, since their official moniker was "Guianacara sp. undescribed" when I...

Hey guys. This morning when I was feeding the siquia pair I got from rapps at am2, the pair was all colored up and dancing around. The female was also very plump. Their "spawning tubes" weren't out too far so I assumed they'ed spawn in a week or so but when I came back from lacrosse practice...

About two weeks ago I got a P.taeniolatus ndiwe fire blue. When he arrived he looked rough. Though he was being bullied or something, had several lappetts (spelling?) Missing some scales looked rough and a small lump on his lip. The lump was the same color as his lips (blue) didn't look like a...

Here is my male HRP x Convict hybrid. Dad was a pure HRP Rio Danli and mom was a standard Con. This hybrid and is sister/mate hybrid are/were very bonded and never fight. They spawned many times and the fry lasted about a week or so. This time the male keeps the female away and the fry are...

So I just introduce another cichlid into the tank "she" got lots of attention from the large male bumblebee cichlid shimmy and shake but that wore of fast now just tons of chasing? Anyone else notice similar behaviors? Lol prob all cichlid owners Just curious if males have ever danced for other...

This morning after feeding my fish I noticed my chilotilapia rhoadesii acting odd. He is swimming/floating at the surface at a 45 degree angle with his mouth and face breaking the surface. It almost appears like he is oxygen deprived but airation and circulation is strong he appears healthy...

The Rainbow Cichlids I got from Matt seem to be doing great but I'm seeing a really funny behavior with the male. He starts at the bottom of the tank on the side where the spray bar is mounted then he swims straight up the front of the tank so fast that he nearly turns himself upside down...

Sam kindly bestowed upon me a group of Betta Patoti - what appears to be 3 males and 1 female. They are being temporarily held in my 29 gallon while I work on the whiskey barrel pond that will be their eventual home. Tonight I was watching them and noticed what I first took for aggression...

I have 3 male and 6 female Cyprochromis leptosoma between about 1.5"-2.5". I was just wondering about their behavior. The 3 males are always out in the open showing off and chasing each other around. In the meantime (almost all day) the females constantly get "herded" to one small area where...

I have 1 male and 2 female german blues.What is the breeding behavior a German blue rams? Will they eat their young Sent from my iPod touch using MonsterAquariaNetwork app

The big pale blue guy in this pic has gotten VERY aggressive in the last couple of weeks. He's probably a hybrid of some sort, with some labeotropheus genes (?), since he was one of my first fish out of HOT's "mixed African" tank. He's in a 55 with white tail Acei, msobo, yellow labs, and Ps...

So my tank has been running for about 2 weeks. My Africans love to run up and down the left corner. Why do they keep doing this? Just up to the top and back down to the bottom. Help. Do my fish feel chlostrophobic?

I've been talking about it since we had Ad in and finally decided to pull the trigger on it. I ordered it from Cichlid Press so that hopefully, Ad would get a few more bucks off the sale than buying it through a third-party site...

Yesterday I observed my yellow labs breeding behavior as different and peculiar. I noticed in my group the one female spawning with multiple males. Is there anything I should be concerned about far as any abnormalities with the fry? Out of many years of breeding cichlids this is the first time I...

Last year I moved my clown loaches, along with the L. Malawi male peacocks and haps into a new tank. Shortly after the move, the two big males battled for hours, in what I learned later from some loach experts in England as 'male dominance aggression' to win the love of the female. They...