Last night, the spawning didn't happen as expected. It is clear that the male is way too inexperience (despite his large size!) on courting the girl. Perhaps it's also contributed by the sheer size of the female, making him very difficult to wrap her.
No eggs had been falling for hours. We just grew tired of them and separate them. We ran another experiment here, what happened if we swap partner during spawning, will the new male pick where the other left off?
As expected, the old male was way confused, he wondered around his new tank helplessly looking for his nest. The female was on the same state, wondering where on earth the gorgeous male went to. Hiding? That's not very nice of him when they were trying hard to wraps!!
Anywho, the new male introduced to the tank, started to flare to the confused female. The female grew anger towards the new male, trying to send him away from the nest. So maybe there is something in the nest after all...Anyhow, the new male has been dancing with her and she's responding by flaring angrily towards him. And that's when the magic comes, in less than 5 minutes, they are wrapping and tons of eggs falling!
It is clear that when the female is about to burst with eggs and the prettiest male is 'useless', you can indeed change partner quickly to get the spawning happening. There is no need to watch the female miserable and dropping her eggs, that would be a waste to her eggs, her spawning experience (she learns from bad lesson and will drop eggs in the future), etc.
Nice after all that we're looking forward for another nice lot coming in couple of months time :)
Friday 13 March 2009
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