Dottybacks
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metalManiac
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interested in the above question as well.
I also have a question i hope is relevant to this topic.
I have had a large orchid dottyback for quite some time, doing a bit of reading i found out that the small ones stay female and large ones become male.
Well i managed to find a nice small fridmani to accompany my big boy. When i introduced her to him he gave her a nudge or two and she was in the top corner of the atnk away from his burrows, but now that i have had her for a month and she has built her own tunnels he likes to swim up to her enterance and turn around doing this tail waving thing (kind of like a spazm dash but he doesent go anywhere), he does this now and then, and sometimes she chases him away while other time she takes no notice.
Is this a submission thing, a courtship thing or an agression thing? Both the dottybacks seem fine, no visible marks (so noone has been biting each other), both are healthy and happy and come out (albeit at opposite ends of the tank) and during feeding they intermingle while gobbling down their food.
I dont know what to make of their relationship.
I also have a question i hope is relevant to this topic.
I have had a large orchid dottyback for quite some time, doing a bit of reading i found out that the small ones stay female and large ones become male.
Well i managed to find a nice small fridmani to accompany my big boy. When i introduced her to him he gave her a nudge or two and she was in the top corner of the atnk away from his burrows, but now that i have had her for a month and she has built her own tunnels he likes to swim up to her enterance and turn around doing this tail waving thing (kind of like a spazm dash but he doesent go anywhere), he does this now and then, and sometimes she chases him away while other time she takes no notice.
Is this a submission thing, a courtship thing or an agression thing? Both the dottybacks seem fine, no visible marks (so noone has been biting each other), both are healthy and happy and come out (albeit at opposite ends of the tank) and during feeding they intermingle while gobbling down their food.
I dont know what to make of their relationship.
ediaz
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Kathy,
Mine spawn every six days, if the spawns are 2 days apart I conbine them, my old pairs clutches are about 700+ eggs, this week I confused the maroon hatch with the dottys, had to set a tank at 11pm to move the clowns, and the dottys hatched in the tank it took two days for the larvae to rinse off through the overflow.
They ussually keep away from each other, and get together to mate when he keeps her in the den until done, if she comes close to the den he chases her, some of my females look pretty beat up but they recover.
In the case of the neon , David is right, you must have a cover the aggression is more intense but she will survive if you provide shelter, i had a pair when the male ripped the female in half just after mating.
I don't know how to establish a pair any othe way only with the two juvies technique it works for me.
I have 11 Neon Dottybacks I will be selling soon but they are perhaps the first ever neons raised in a basement/house operation so I will sell to selected breeders.
Mine spawn every six days, if the spawns are 2 days apart I conbine them, my old pairs clutches are about 700+ eggs, this week I confused the maroon hatch with the dottys, had to set a tank at 11pm to move the clowns, and the dottys hatched in the tank it took two days for the larvae to rinse off through the overflow.
They ussually keep away from each other, and get together to mate when he keeps her in the den until done, if she comes close to the den he chases her, some of my females look pretty beat up but they recover.
In the case of the neon , David is right, you must have a cover the aggression is more intense but she will survive if you provide shelter, i had a pair when the male ripped the female in half just after mating.
I don't know how to establish a pair any othe way only with the two juvies technique it works for me.
I have 11 Neon Dottybacks I will be selling soon but they are perhaps the first ever neons raised in a basement/house operation so I will sell to selected breeders.
damer
Yes, I have a pair of orchid dottybacks in a 37L glass aquaria with a simple hanging filter. I put 5 juveniles of around 3 cm TL in the tank. These are malformed and could not be accepted by local fish shop. They matured and two of them commenced spawning 16 weeks after their hatch. I moved them to another 37 L aquaria. Among the three remained, another 2 made spawning 3 weeks later. The first pair keeps spawning and the second pair gave the second spawning the day before yesterday.
Bandeng
Yes, I have a pair of orchid dottybacks in a 37L glass aquaria with a simple hanging filter. I put 5 juveniles of around 3 cm TL in the tank. These are malformed and could not be accepted by local fish shop. They matured and two of them commenced spawning 16 weeks after their hatch. I moved them to another 37 L aquaria. Among the three remained, another 2 made spawning 3 weeks later. The first pair keeps spawning and the second pair gave the second spawning the day before yesterday.
Bandeng
