Aggressive male Krib

[Supersalmon]

My pair of Kribs spawned some time ago. The babies have been free swimming for 6 weeks and are quite big, I still have a dozen of them which I think is quite a lot to survive in a community tank with angels, rainbows and lots of tetras. Anyway the numbers havent reduced in three weeks and the babies happily swim up to the middle of the tank to get food and are ignored by all the other fish so I guess I am stuck with a dozen young Kribs to find new homes for. The problem is my female Krib wants to breed again, she doesnt take much interest in the babies any more. However the male is having none of it, he put up with her shaking and showing her big red belly to him for a while but now he has turned nasty. He is still protecting his babies and now regards the female as a threat to them even though she just ignores them. He has become very aggressive more so than when the babies were just born and especially chases the female Krib. I found her hiding in the plants this morning. Has this happened to anyone else or is this unusual behaviour for a male Krib to be so devoted?

 

[Alia]

I think that the males are devoted! My poor male became so stressed after chasing his brood around for a month that he became sick and died!

Plus, I remember reading a story recently of someone putting their krib babies in a container whilst they cleaned the tank. The father was having a heart-attack, so they put the father in with the fry -- but the father kept jumping out back into the tank with fry in his mouth, trying to save them!! Finally, the fishkeeper left the father in the tank, guarding the container, and finished cleaning.

My female took care of the fry very well, but the male seemed to just dote on them.

 

[Mamaschild]

I learned with my Kribs that the male normally will not spawn again, even if the female wants to, if there are ANY fry in the tank. I left two in with them, but the male flat REFUSED until all the babies were removed, then they spawned again within a week.

If you want them to have more fry, you must remove the old ones. Tempremental buggers

HTH

 

[Chaos]

Im having some what of the same problem with my Male Krib. I have him in a 29gal tank with 3 females and the only thing he wants to do is chase them around. At times it even looks like hes hunting for them to aggrevate them to death.

 

[Alia]

How mature are your females? I would think that they would all be fighting over that male, if they were sexually mature. Perhaps they are still juveniles? I believe it is 7 to 9 months for kribs. Is his belly pink (not raging pink, but like a nice blush)? What about theirs? This is how my kribs looked about a month before they hatched their fry:
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