RE: Borelii 'yellow point' spawn

["Stepanova, Lilia" <Lilia.Stepanova@stjude.org>]

Hi,
My female is still with eggs, I will take it as a good sign... 

My female blue rams were becoming egg-bound in the absence of a male on a
regular basis (I mean, everyone of them that was unfortunate enough to stay
without a male for more than couple of weeks), and invariably died from it.
Now I have two female gold rams without a male, and they regularly lay eggs
and even try to defend them for couple of days, until other fish insist on
them being eating.

Lilia

	Mike Wise wrote:
	>Yes, but most females will reabsorb the eggs if there is no male of
her own
	or
	>closely related species to stimulate her spawning urge.



	I've seen female apistos pop their eggs out in mid water.  I guess
to
	prevent from becoming eggbound.  Also some will lay eggs even if
there's no
	male around to fertilize them.  The Satanoperca female did this on
the
	week-end.  I think people have reported Angelfish doing this as
well.

	The only dwarf cichlid I've seen being eggbound was a female Blue
ram.  She
	was so puffed up that her swim bladder was damaged.  Now it's been
at least
	8 or 9 months and she lives on the bottom of a tank.  No altitude,
but she's
	eating, chasing other dwarf cichlids around etc.  And she no longer
gets
	puffed up from eggs.  Maybe she does have menopause. :)

	Gabriella Kadar




	
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