Re: Brood care in filamentosus

[salS <chas33@optonline.net>]

I certainly haven't!... on the contrary..the female usually kept the male
away for at least a month before she would allow him near..maybe he just
"bullied" himself in and took the fry!.. I had a Macmasteri male that did
this constantly and he never hurt the fry.

Sal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Zack Wilson" <aquamaniac@earthlink.net>
To: <apisto@listbox.com>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 1:50 PM
Subject: Brood care in filamentosus


> I currently have a tank with four females guarding eggs/young. The oldest
> group of fry are now about 2 weeks old. Something I haven't seen before
> happened yesterday. I came down to find that the female was only leading
> about half of the fry I left her with the other night. I thought perhaps
> some had been eaten during the night by other fish, or maybe her. On
closer
> observation, I found the male on the opposite end of the tank with more
than
> half of the fry. He's now been leading them around the tank for the better
> part of two days. I wasn't under the impression that male fils
participated
> in brood care. Anyone seen this before?
>
> Zack
>
>
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