Male doesn't want to fertilize eggs

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Have a bit of a situation here.

Have a solid blue female and solid blue male in a 125 g aquarium - they are blocked off in a 2' x 2' section of the 6' tank by a screen, so they get privacy from the other males. They have bred 3 times so far, but no fertilized eggs yet. (The male has bred with another female previously, but do not have the female now)
Read on this forum to leave the night light as one of the parents kept eating the eggs at night. Now I have the eggs uneaten, but after the 2nd day they all turn white - unfertilized..!

Tried breeding the female with another male - snakeskin, but I think he was too immature and would guard the territory with his life, but just watch as she laid the eggs.

Any tips guys...? Also, I have 7 males (blue, snakeskins, pigeon blood, red) and 1 female. all 2 yrs old and 6.5"+ in size...maybe willing to trade a couple of males for females.

[mmorris]

When the male bred with another female, did the eggs hatch? What is the tds of your water? Temp? Can they see through the screen?

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"mmorris" - see he had bred with the earlier female only once.
The screen is a net as you can see in the pic, so they can somewhat see, but not that clearly.
Here are a couple of pics

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[mmorris]

When the male bred with another female, did the eggs hatch? What is the tds of your water? Temp?

:)

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oops, got carried away with getting the darn pics on. Well, didn't get to the stage of the eggs hatching. It was a long time back, but I think someone ate the eggs, and didn't get a 2nd round of breeding, before I traded that pigeon blood female for the current solid blue one.

Will get the water parameters tomorrow from Petland :)

[mmorris]

OK, so there's no evidence yet that the male is fertile, or that he is, in fact, a male. Water stats might help. What is your wc regime? How old is the male?