Is history repeating itself?

GaryE said:

They can, but on their terms. They're probably looking out while you look in thinking "Why can't this person get the set up right so we don't have to look at each other when we don't want to!"
There's no reason why you can't - it's just being creative and figuring out how. Are the caves too big? Can they see into them from other caves? Are the sightlines broken? Where are the rocks placed....

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Essjay said:

I've kept these fish a couple of times over the years and I discovered they like small caves; so narrow that you'd wonder how a male and female could possibly both fit inside to breed. But breed they did, the male guarded the eggs, then the fry became free swimming and were promptly eaten by the other fish

The last time, I used sections of 3/4 inch wide plastic piping siliconed to pieces of slate to weight them down. The male only just fit inside with the eggs.

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itiwhetu said:

Another photo from my out dated book by an author who doesn't no what he is talking about
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itiwhetu said:

I'm not going to try to sex them, I will leave that to those on here with the modern methods. But I will say there seems to be a significant difference in size with these two fish, which could be a problem. How large do you expect them to get, in the olden days they usually only got to 2-2.5 inches in length

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