There has been now 3 spawns after my last post, now i have two different spawns in the same cave

I didn't disturb they this time, read: i have throw my flashlight away, alfa male guards wigglers now.

Beta male have spawned yesterday, same problem again, alfa male stole that cave where they spawned... but beta male surprised me again, he moved eggs in the another cave

Alfa male is now in the quarantine, so long that eggs has hatched

Here's one more, this is my friends homepage http://jyrkiboy.aqua-web.org/stones1.html

These are not plecos, my another hobby is reefkeeping but i need to try to raise something else not only L46. I have now once raised 50 Nemo babys.

McEve wrote:Your English is fine! No problem at all

Congrats on your new babies, more auntiebabies for me

Than you McEve , i have new tank for the zebs (100*60*30, 30 is height) but it's still in the garage.

Hi all!

After my last post i had 4 spawns, 2 of them didn't get any results, third spawn give 7 healthy babys and the latest is spawned saturday. It was my beta male and "alfa" female again, this time i have dealed aquarium so the lazy bastard (alfamale) can't overtake cave where the eggs are ...

Cave is now empty, alfa male has moved to another cave. I don't found any fry, eggs or egg shells can they move eggs to another cave?

learn something new about these fish every day it's against what's normal in nature, but they are special in many ways aren't they.

Congrats and well done on a fantastic result this year!

It happened again, alfa male has taken the beta males cave and the eggs :shock: , he is lazy bastard :D ...

This is fantastic! I'm sorry I missed this thread.

i've never heard of an alpha taking over eggs fertilized by a beta male before Are you sure it was't the alphas eggs?

Weird

Yes i'm sure, beta male and the eggs was in the cave in the evening, when i checked in the morning alfa male was taken ...

Last night they have done it again beta male is tending eggs.

Here's couple of pictures, there is 29 youngster born this year.

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w112/Hypancistruszebra_album/Nyklckatoch1mnadgammalyngels413.jpg

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w112/Hypancistruszebra_album/11st3mnadgammalyngel.jpg

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums ...

There was 12 youngsters in the cave and alfa male has new spawn and youngsters in the cave. This is my third spawn in this year. First spawn 11 youngsters, second 12 and now male is tending new spawn

Yes he did continue he throw four babies out, i picked them up but only one of these survived. Alfa male is still in the cave and there is ~15 youngster with "spare" dad.

No answers, but i know it now.

Hi all,

My beta male spawned with my alfa female, after one night the alfa male stole beta male's cave and eggs. Have anybody had same kind of situation? Is it possible that alfa male continues tending? That was my worst case scenario and it happend