SV: Female with our without eggs

["Andréasson" <sten.andreasson@mailbox.swipnet.se>]

Hi!

Thanks for your help. I believe you are right, even if it is the first time
I try and spawn the fish. Maybe it's genetical - the speciem could have
been bred very much and thereby not suited for egglaying. It is not
uncommon with other animals dying when they are trying to give birth I
believe. The reason why I believe so is also that she became yellow just
one week before it happened.

I think the male is missing her, in some kind of biological way. I have a
new female now and hoping for the best! 

Thanks,

Kristofer
> Kristofer  writes:
> 
> << My female A. Trifasciata had been hiding the last week. The male was
> > protecting her. I thougt they should/had spawn. Then she one day
floated
> > at the surface, dead. Was she sick or pregnant? She didn't look sick at
> > all! >>
> 
> She could have been "egg bound", a very rare condition where she has
trouble
> for some reason actually getting the eggs to come out.  This is sometimes
> fatal, as the eggs will eventually die and rot inside her.
> 
> Bob Dixon
> 
> 
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