coralbandit
02-06-2020, 11:09 AM
Hey guys my Santarems are raising their second successful spawn . The first was only one month previous so I know these two are still learning .
The first time I had to separate the pair about 7-10 days in after attachment as the male was nipping the females tail quite seriously in my opinion .
I left her with the fry and they did great .I have 40 that are about the size of a quarter now that are just 5 weeks old in their own tank eating like little big fish !
They are up to 4 cubes of FDBW cut in half a day now along with frozen daphnia ,grow crumbles [a slow sinking small pellet] and golden pearls ..They are doing GREAT !
The pair has maybe 80 fry bouncing back and fourth off them now and are also doing well, but... He is starting to nip her tail again ..She provokes him a little but he has no damage ..
The tail biting is showing on her ..I am figuring I am going to have to separate them again but this time he will stay and she have a small vacation on the other side of the divider ..
My real question [silly I know ] is will this tail biting behavior stop sometime in the future ? Is this part of the learning ?
Have any of you seen this in particular before and how did you handle it ?
Thanks ,
Tom
The first time I had to separate the pair about 7-10 days in after attachment as the male was nipping the females tail quite seriously in my opinion .
I left her with the fry and they did great .I have 40 that are about the size of a quarter now that are just 5 weeks old in their own tank eating like little big fish !
They are up to 4 cubes of FDBW cut in half a day now along with frozen daphnia ,grow crumbles [a slow sinking small pellet] and golden pearls ..They are doing GREAT !
The pair has maybe 80 fry bouncing back and fourth off them now and are also doing well, but... He is starting to nip her tail again ..She provokes him a little but he has no damage ..
The tail biting is showing on her ..I am figuring I am going to have to separate them again but this time he will stay and she have a small vacation on the other side of the divider ..
My real question [silly I know ] is will this tail biting behavior stop sometime in the future ? Is this part of the learning ?
Have any of you seen this in particular before and how did you handle it ?
Thanks ,
Tom