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Posted by bottom feeder on April 19, 2005, 3:26 pm
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JK@work wrote:
> Breeding that is. I have a gold female that was laying eggs like crazy,
> but kept swapping out potential mates until I found a male. He's a huge
> green male that succeeded in 2 spawnings. I moved the babes to another tank
> a few times. She then left a few batches of unfertilized eggs over the next
> few months. They did actively take care of them until they started rotting
> and were discarded. It's been 6 months and no eggs at all. Just cold
> stopped. They still act very territorial about the cave wall where they
> watched the eggs in the past, so they still act like a pair. They are alone
> in the tank. I wonder if the male is too old? He's twice as big. But even
> so she stopped producng eggs completely. I do water changes and PH checks
> and such with no help. Anyone have any ideas why they stopped, or what to do
> to get them going again?
>
Try water changes with colder water and lower pH. See if it does
anything. My severums spawned once when I did this and it wasn't on
purpose, so who knows.
--
dan
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> but kept swapping out potential mates until I found a male. He's a huge
> green male that succeeded in 2 spawnings. I moved the babes to another tank
> a few times. She then left a few batches of unfertilized eggs over the next
> few months. They did actively take care of them until they started rotting
> and were discarded. It's been 6 months and no eggs at all. Just cold
> stopped. They still act very territorial about the cave wall where they
> watched the eggs in the past, so they still act like a pair. They are alone
> in the tank. I wonder if the male is too old? He's twice as big. But even
> so she stopped producng eggs completely. I do water changes and PH checks
> and such with no help. Anyone have any ideas why they stopped, or what to do
> to get them going again?
>