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Ken Burke
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I think I’m seeing spawning behavior, but really I’m just guessing.  She spend most of her time in one of the caves, cleaning and occasionally spitting stuff out.  Sometimes she’ll come out and swim up to the dominant male then roll onto her side and swim back to the cave like she’s trying to entice. I caught it on video - what are your thoughts 

 

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Thanks for the input everyone.  They are the dominate pair in a 20 long with some platty fish, 2 panda coridoras and a smallish bn  pleco.  I was over-wintering the platys but think I’ll take them to the lfs.  Should I remove the non-dominate male as well?  7B253C71-DB85-497B-8D78-69DF57F91F02.jpeg.aff27857aff49f14685aa0150ae241a3.jpeg

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I think the most surefire thing you could do would be to remove everyone except the female after the fry hatch.

I don't have enough experience with keeping other fish with my apistos during breeding, so this is just an assumption based on my experience. but there does exist a likelihood that the mother apisto will get aggressive with the other tanks mates.

Shortly after hatch, as the fry are better at frees swimming, she'll start escorting them around the tank a bit, and anyone or anything in her way could has the possibility of getting attacked.

I had only a male and female in my tank, a 29G, and the female relentlessly attacked the male. And this is in a tank with lots of cover and line-of-sight breaks.

I know people have varied experiences with the levels of this 'mama-bear' type protective aggression, but it's a possibility.

Hopefully others who have raised apisto fry in a community setting can lend a different view and advice to with this.

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