Re: Difficult females

[Scott <zerelli@yahoo.com>]

I'm sorry for breaking the one-liner rule but after
that subject line, I had two words that I had to say:

my wife


Thank you that is all.

--- Tomoko Schum <tomokoschum@knology.net> wrote:
> Hi y'all,
> 
> Are some female apistos too feisty to breed?  This
> female
> aggie of mine is so feisty that she bit off part of
> her
> partner's tail as soon as he was introduced to her. 
> Now my
> male aggie has a lyretail.  This female spawned a
> few times
> but nothing came out of it each time.  She comes out
> of her
> hiding after a few days and starts guarding live
> food I give
> them chasing the male away every time he gets near. 
> I had
> them in my medium hard water (pH of 7.2 and 80ppm
> GH) since
> they were born and raised in well water harder than
> my tap.
> Dropping the softness of the tank water by replacing
> 25%
> with DI water did not help.  I am going to soften
> their
> water a lot more to see if this is going to make any
> difference.
> 
> Right now I am actually having a difficulty with
> three of my
> female apistos.  The aforementioned feisty aggie, A.
> sp. Rio
> mamore and double red cacatuoides females are all
> guarding
> live food I give them and chasing their partners
> away.  They
> have no eggs or fry.  All these females are young
> adults.
> Next to their tanks borellii and orange flash
> cacatuoides
> females were pumping out so many fry in my medium
> hard tap
> water  I had to separate the pairs.  They all have
> the same
> type set up and the same water parameters.  I change
> 50% of
> their water every week.  A few months ago I
> convinced my
> trifasciata female to quite fooling around like that
> by
> turning her tank water into just about pure H2O.  Is
> this
> what it takes?  Or are some females just too tough
> to breed?
> 
> Tomoko
> 
> 
>
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