Re: industrious mamores

["David Soares" <apistodave@bendcable.com>]

Sure typical house building behavior you might get lucky Adam!
Soft Water Dwarf Cichlids
Uwe Romer & David Soares
14697 S. Bluegrass Ln.
Sisters OR, 97759
Phone/541-549-9350
apistodave@bendcable.com
www.apistogrammaidiots.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam G" <apisto99@hotmail.com>
To: <apisto@listbox.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 1:33 PM
Subject: industrious mamores


>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been sitting watching my A. mamores cavort for about an hour, and I'm
> so interested in what one of the females is doing that I thought I'd take
a
> break and write about it (of course, I'm also hoping that Murphy's Law is
at
> work, and they'll spawn while I'm away from the tank!).
>
> For the past few weeks, I've had several halved coconut shells with a hole
> drilled into them lying in the tank.  The females ducked in and out of
them,
> but no great interest.  Yesterday, I changed things up a bit (always
trying
> to see what the females apistos' tastes are).  I had cut up some coconut
> shells in into quarters and length-wise pieces.  I arranged them in little
> clusters, and the females got real excited.  This afternoon, I noticed the
> male hanging out at the back of the tank, behind a large piece of
driftwood.
>   Every now and then, one of the females would dart out from behind the
> wood, bright yellow.  She'd coax the male to follow her around.  She's
been
> turning on her side, almost upside down and wriggling (much the way I've
> seen all three of the fish flip their tales, in what has been described to
> me as a show of strength).  I was very surprised to finally see the female
> disappear under the gravel!  I noticed that a small piece of slate that I
> have drilled onto the drift wood is minimally exposed.  She must have dug
a
> hole out and she'd living down under now!  My females have often cleared
out
> little spaces at the edge of pieces of wood, but I've yet to see them go
> completely underground!
>
> Anyone else with this experience?
> Adam (Sorry for the rant!)
>
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