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hey, my fm caudo has shown the standard breeding behaviors (acting abnormally strange towards the male, and then the obvios tip theirs eggs, diving into the shell halfway then frantically fanning her entire body at the entrance
(this was the dead giveaway
)) So as i fed my fish this afternoon i sat down infront of the caudo tank and noticed a ton of fry swimming all over the fm's conk shell
This is my first time breeding this pair, and the reason i need some advice is because i bought this pair from a hobbyiest on this forum as a breeding pair, but i was told that they had the tendancy to eat fry once they left the pairs territory and tried to return. I but the pair in a 20lng which is divided in half by a watertight acrylic sheet divider which i made so that fry couldn't slip by. I was hoping that having the cuados in half a 20lng would be small enough that the fry couldn't leave what the parents didn't take as their territory therefore they wouldn't get eaten since they couldn't return if they couldn't leave, lol good logic huh :wink:
Well now that i'm seeing all these fry in this shell i really would rather not risk it, and it WOULD be so easy to remove the whole shell w/ the fry, BUT everyone knows things are never as easy as they should be
The fm refuses to leave the shell so she would have to go along for the ride, but what i'm thinking is if they would eat the fry when they left their territory then what would happen if i moved all the fry w/ the fm to a strange territory (10gal) don't want to risk her seeing it as they left the territory and just eating all of them. SO just curious if anybody else has some problems like this and if so what do u think the best solution would be
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thanks,
-matt







thanks,
-matt