Krib Breeding

[Cheese Specialist]

Hello everyone,

Not posted in this section for a whie but I have a problem. I have a 78l set-up for my albino kribs and I found fry yesterday. See here. They seem well and there's a lot of them.

Anyways, the male is being really aggressive with the female. She has a big bite out of her tail and he lets the 2 mollies closer to the fry than the Mum. He chases her around the tank and I hear her banging off the glass. She is looking very stressed and I am worried about her.

Are the 2 mollies not enough to keep his attention? I am going to put my golden gourami in there for now to see if it helps and I an always take her back out. I thought she'd be good because of where her mouth is, it makes it hard for her (and the mollies who were chosen for the same reason) to eat off the bottom.

Any help appreciated.

Oh, by the way all levels are fine (amonia and nitrIe 0 and nitrAte 10) and the tank has been set up about 3 weeks and mature filter media was used.

Dana

 

[Cheese Specialist]

I decided againstr adding the golden gourami because I think she's a bit big for that size of tank (about 4") so I added my 3 penguin tetra instead, hopefully that'llgive a bit more action for Mr K to keep an eye on.

Hope poor Mrs K is going to be alright. I considered taking her out but I don't think that's a good idea.

Any help is still very welcome.

Dana

 

[Chaos]

Im at a loss Cheese...dunno what to tell ya. My male was overly aggressive before i got him a new female mate. The first female i had for him was a little smaller so he picked on her 24/7. I ended up putting some guppies in there to help keep his attention, but he ignored them and kept persuing the female. Almost like he was only looking for her to pick on, searching the tank for her.
Since then i have removed all guppies, and got him a new female mate, which now that i believe they have eggs in their lil hut, they are both in and out of it constantly. One goes in, one comes out..one goes in ..one comes out.

 

[Cheese Specialist]

Hmmmm Mrs K is pretty big, she is not far off the size of him if you remember from the pictures.

Hope the penguins will help.

 

[Chaos]

May have to put him in Time out till he learns to behave
Hopefully the penguins will help out alot. Keep us posted