My Gold & Blue, blue eye male African tetra ( Phenacogrammus Aurantiacus ) is interested in a particularly plump female today.. .

[Magnum Man]

1st time he hasn’t been happy just finding a quiet spot in the tank, with all the drama the male yellow tail has been causing lately.. did a long overdue water change yesterday, so that may have triggered it… maybe it was just time???

 

[Colin_T]

Two things.
1) please clean the glass before taking pictures

2) why don't you breed them?
Your fish are displaying and breeding in the tank. Separate males and females for 5 days, then put a pair (1 male & 1 female) in a 2 foot tank with lots of plants, an air operated sponge filter, heater, thin layer of gravel, coverglass and let them breed. Take them out after 24 hours and see what you get. You have these unusual fish that are obviously happy in the tank, breed them.

 

[Magnum Man]

The bulk of what you are seeing is turbidity in the water ( river tank ) with a lot of tannins… but admit on this tank the glass has also been a challenge...

I still have 2-30 gallon long tanks in my "built in" set up, that I’ve not refilled yet… along that line of thought... a lot of these fish are river fish... will they effectively reproduce in a tank where the only water movement comes from a sponge filter??? I get that you wouldn't want to suck up the eggs or fry, but if there is no water movement, will the fish still spawn??? may have to watch that, & have plenty of sponge filtering, & then turn off the major water moving filters when the pair are in the mood???

At this point the tanks running are just display tanks… and I’m happy with that, and how well they are doing right now… but, I’m too busy to even set up another tank right now…. I’ll be retiring in a couple years, and hopefully I’ll have a couple fish up to the task, when I have a little more time… between working full time plus, raising farm animals ( raising our own food ) and trying to keep up with everything… I just don’t have the time to dedicate yet…

Thanks for acknowledging that I have unusual fish, and that they seem to be doing well… anything worth doing, I like to try to do right...

 

[Colin_T]

You can breed them in a tank without lots of water movement so an air operated sponge filter will be fine.

To get them in the mood, separate males and females for 5 days and feed them well before and during that time. Then put a pr in a tank and they will be off and racing.