aussiefish
10-03-2009, 04:04 AM
A few days ago a pair (female blue turq and male?? red dragon) laid some eggs and what looked like fertilized them, on the side of our 330 litre tank.
I inserted a stainless steel mesh panel to seperate them and the eggs from the other fish but i think the parents ate the eggs. From what i can gather after a day or so the eggs should turn a different colour. These ones stayed milky white, and a couple of them went solid white. The blue turq (female) layed the eggs, She had a small tube hanging down from her where we saw the eggs coming from the red dragon (male??) did not have any thing hanging down. Does this mean it is a male or could it still be a female. Both fish are still huddling up in the corner next to the spot where the eggs were laid, I think they are going to try again as there is a lot of shuddering and shimming going on between them, and increased aggression towards a white butterfly and 2 x juvie red malboros. We have a small 80 litre tank and are thinking of setting it up and putting the pair in there as they are stressing out the other fish and i think they will have a better chance of breeding on there own, your opinion??. Finally if a social tank has only females of males in it would all this aggresion go away and everything settle down??.
I inserted a stainless steel mesh panel to seperate them and the eggs from the other fish but i think the parents ate the eggs. From what i can gather after a day or so the eggs should turn a different colour. These ones stayed milky white, and a couple of them went solid white. The blue turq (female) layed the eggs, She had a small tube hanging down from her where we saw the eggs coming from the red dragon (male??) did not have any thing hanging down. Does this mean it is a male or could it still be a female. Both fish are still huddling up in the corner next to the spot where the eggs were laid, I think they are going to try again as there is a lot of shuddering and shimming going on between them, and increased aggression towards a white butterfly and 2 x juvie red malboros. We have a small 80 litre tank and are thinking of setting it up and putting the pair in there as they are stressing out the other fish and i think they will have a better chance of breeding on there own, your opinion??. Finally if a social tank has only females of males in it would all this aggresion go away and everything settle down??.